Should I start Khalil Shakir or Jakobi Meyers in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Khalil Shakir's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 76 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

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

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers scored 11.0 PPR points a game and Khalil Shakir 10.4, 0.6 a game between them.

Khalil Shakir finished WR36 that year and Jakobi Meyers WR32.

Jakobi Meyers had 15 more targets than Khalil Shakir, 110 to 95.

Jakobi Meyers had 116 more receiving yards than Khalil Shakir, 835 to 719.

This season Jakobi Meyers holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 64 percent.

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.0 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.