Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Josh Cuevas in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jaylen Waddle: 62 percent of the snaps and 27 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Josh Cuevas's 28 percent of the snaps and 10 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.
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- Market-based projection
- 9.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 93
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- Market-based projection
- 2.7 pts a game
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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 Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Jaylen Waddle is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.
Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
Jaylen Waddle's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 66 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 16 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 51 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.
In Week 6 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ARI he caught 4 of 7 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 22 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 47 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.
In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.
He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and Josh Cuevas a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.
What would change the answer
Jaylen Waddle has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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