Should I start Jakobi Meyers or Ted Hurst III in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 3:06 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Jakobi Meyers: 80 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ted Hurst III's 56 percent of the snaps and 9 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.
WR14 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Market-based projection
- 9.0 pts a game
WR16 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 7.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 47
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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 Jakobi Meyers, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ted Hurst III, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Ted Hurst III, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 80 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.
Through Week 8, Ted Hurst III has been on the field for 56 percent of TB snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 15.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against CAR he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
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.
Ted Hurst III is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Jakobi Meyers holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 56 percent.
This season Jakobi Meyers holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7 and Ted Hurst III in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Ted Hurst III has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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- Is Ted Hurst III playing Week 9?
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