Should I start Ja'Kobi Lane or Puka Nacua in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 5:36 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Puka Nacua: 90 percent of the snaps and 34 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ja'Kobi Lane's 63 percent of the snaps and 12 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 Ja'Kobi Lane for Puka Nacua?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Puka Nacua projects 172 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (21.5 a game over 8 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 33 (4.1 a game over 8 games).
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR40 · BAL · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 4.0 pts a game
WR42 · LAR · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 4-2
- Market-based projection
- 21.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 102
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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 Ja'Kobi Lane, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Puka Nacua, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 6.
The market-based projections
Ja'Kobi Lane's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Puka Nacua is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Puka Nacua's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Ja'Kobi Lane has been on the field for 56 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.
Through Week 8, Puka Nacua has been on the field for 86 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 34 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 20 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 3 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 74 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.
In Week 6 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 80 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against LV he carried 2 times for 10 yards, caught 8 of 10 targets for 68 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against LAC he caught 11 of 12 targets for 80 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Ja'Kobi Lane is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Puka Nacua played 16 games and scored 375.0 PPR points, 23.4 a game, finishing WR1.
He caught 129 of 166 targets for 1715 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.
That came to 10.4 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Puka Nacua holds the bigger snap share, 86 percent against 56 percent.
This season Puka Nacua holds the bigger target share, 34 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
Ja'Kobi Lane is off in Week 13 and Puka Nacua in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Puka Nacua 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 Ja'Kobi Lane for Puka Nacua?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Puka Nacua projects 172 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (21.5 a game over 8 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 33 (4.1 a game over 8 games).
Should I drop Puka Nacua for Ja'Kobi Lane?
No. Keep Puka Nacua: he projects 172 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (21.5 a game over 8 games), Ja'Kobi Lane 33 (4.1 a game over 8 games).
Both players in full
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