Should I start Jakobi Meyers or J.J. McCarthy in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.J. McCarthy, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jakobi Meyers is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

J.J. McCarthy's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 75 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 3 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against BAL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, J.J. McCarthy has been on the field for 49 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 75 times and thrown 11.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 75 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 6 against NO he completed 11 of 17 passes for 243 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 26 yards.

In Week 7 against HOU he completed 20 of 27 passes for 252 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

In Week 9 against PHI he completed 12 of 19 passes for 127 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 23 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 J.J. McCarthy played 10 games and scored 137.4 PPR points, 13.7 a game, finishing QB30.

He threw for 1632 yards on 243 attempts with 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and ran for 181 yards and 4 touchdowns.

That came to 24.3 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jakobi Meyers was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 J.J. McCarthy scored 13.7 PPR points a game and Jakobi Meyers 11.0, 2.8 a game between them.

Jakobi Meyers finished WR32 and J.J. McCarthy QB30, which are two different ladders.

Jakobi Meyers is a wide receiver and J.J. McCarthy 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. No bye is listed for J.J. McCarthy.

J.J. McCarthy is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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