Should I start Jakobi Meyers or Jameis Winston in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 4:31 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jameis Winston: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jakobi Meyers's 83 percent of the snaps and 17 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.

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

Jakobi Meyers

WR47 · JAX · bye 7

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Market-based projection: 8.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 126

Jameis Winston

QB23 · NYG · bye 8

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Market-based projection: 14.5 pts a game

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The gap

Board size329 draftable players

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 Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jameis Winston, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jakobi Meyers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Jameis Winston's market-based projection is 14.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 81 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 64 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Jameis Winston has been on the field for 96 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 148 times and thrown 9.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 148 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 3 against TEN he completed 14 of 22 passes for 118 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 15 yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he completed 18 of 29 passes for 250 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against WAS he completed 33 of 54 passes for 326 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 28 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jameis Winston played 3 games and scored 45.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB46.

He threw for 567 yards on 66 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, and ran for 23 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 22.0 attempts a game at 8.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jakobi Meyers was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameis Winston scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 4.1 a game between them.

Jakobi Meyers finished WR32 and Jameis Winston QB46, which are two different ladders.

Jakobi Meyers is a wide receiver and Jameis Winston a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and Jameis Winston in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Jakobi Meyers has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.