Should I start Parker Washington or John Metchie III in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Parker Washington, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 18.

Live drafts hold no current pick on John Metchie III, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Parker Washington is 3.7 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.

John Metchie III's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Parker Washington's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Parker Washington has been on the field for 77 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 124 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against HOU he caught 4 of 11 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, John Metchie III has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 3 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 4 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Parker Washington played 16 games and scored 184.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR27.

He caught 58 of 95 targets for 847 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 John Metchie III 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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Parker Washington scored 11.5 PPR points a game and John Metchie III 4.5, 7.0 a game between them.

Parker Washington finished WR27 that year and John Metchie III WR87.

Parker Washington had 47 more targets than John Metchie III, 95 to 48.

Parker Washington had 573 more receiving yards than John Metchie III, 847 to 274.

This season Parker Washington holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 46 percent.

This season Parker Washington holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Parker Washington is off in Week 7 and John Metchie III in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Parker Washington has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.