Should I start Kevin Coleman or John Metchie in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:31 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kevin Coleman: 60 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against John Metchie's 42 percent of the snaps and 11 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.
WR77 · MIA · bye 6
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- Overall rank
- 180
WR79 · CAR · bye 5
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- Overall rank
- 182
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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 Kevin Coleman, and the board ranks him 180th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on John Metchie, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kevin Coleman is 0.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.
The market-based projection for John Metchie is 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.
Kevin Coleman's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Kevin Coleman has been on the field for 51 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.
In Week 3 against KC he caught 1 of 4 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIN he caught 1 of 4 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CIN he caught 3 of 7 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 6, John Metchie has been on the field for 35 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.
In Week 3 against CLE he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 5 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Kevin Coleman is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 John Metchie played 16 games and scored 71.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR87.
He caught 33 of 48 targets for 274 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 43 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Kevin Coleman holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 35 percent.
This season Kevin Coleman holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Kevin Coleman is off in Week 6 and John Metchie in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
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