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Should I start Mike Evans or Ja'Kobi Lane in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 6:16 AM ET.

Start Mike Evans: 54 percent of the snaps and 27 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ja'Kobi Lane's 54 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Mike Evans for Ja'Kobi Lane?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Ja'Kobi Lane projects 34 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (4.3 a game over 8 games), Mike Evans 27 (3.0 a game over 9 games). Mike Evans is listed out.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Mike Evans

WR23 · SF · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Overall rank
61

Ja'Kobi Lane

WR26 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
3.9 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

Mike Evans's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 54 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ja'Kobi Lane is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 54 percent.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Mike Evans is off in Week 8 and Ja'Kobi Lane in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Mike Evans is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Mike Evans has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Mike Evans for Ja'Kobi Lane?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Ja'Kobi Lane projects 34 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (4.3 a game over 8 games), Mike Evans 27 (3.0 a game over 9 games). Mike Evans is listed out.

  • Should I drop Ja'Kobi Lane for Mike Evans?

    No. Keep Ja'Kobi Lane: he projects 34 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (4.3 a game over 8 games), Mike Evans 27 (3.0 a game over 9 games). Mike Evans is listed out.

Both players in full

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