Should I start Tee Higgins or Jalen Hurts in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 10:31 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jalen Hurts: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tee Higgins's 80 percent of the snaps and 22 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR35 · CIN · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 86
QB12 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 12.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 87
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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 Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Hurts, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tee Higgins is 3.0 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.
No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 77 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 11 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 43 targets have averaged 13.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.
He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalen Hurts was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Tee Higgins 14.1, 5.0 a game between them.
Tee Higgins finished WR15 and Jalen Hurts QB8, which are two different ladders.
Tee Higgins is a wide receiver and Jalen Hurts a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Tee Higgins is off in Week 6 and Jalen Hurts in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jalen Hurts is listed as ir on the injury report.
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