Skip to main content
parlae.io
Sign in

Should I start John Metchie III or Tank Dell in Week 9?

Updated Nov 3, 6:06 AM ET.

Start John Metchie III: 46 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 2 games, against Tank Dell's 23 percent of the snaps and 4 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.

Parlae may earn a commission from price links.

Advertisement

Your next move

More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.

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.

John Metchie III

WR79 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
3.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
188

Tank Dell

WR81 · HOU · bye 8

Overall rank
191

Make this call for your own roster

Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.

Sync my league

SleeperESPNYahoo

Or get it by email

Tuesday 7am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.

Free. One a week, one tap to stop.

The gap

  • Board size297 draftable players

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 John Metchie III, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tank Dell, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for John Metchie III is 0.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 Tank Dell is 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 8, John Metchie III has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 13 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

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

In Week 8 against GB he caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Tank Dell has been on the field for 23 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 17.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against NYG he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 43 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

The season feed carries no line for Tank Dell in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season John Metchie III holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 23 percent.

This season John Metchie III holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

John Metchie III is off in Week 5 and Tank Dell in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Both players in full

Week 9 on the board

Next duels