Should I start Nate Boerkircher or Jonnu Smith in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Week 9 verdict
Start Nate Boerkircher over Jonnu Smith
- Market projects
- 2.3
- fantasy pts
- BAL D vs TE
- 13.5
- 15th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 48%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 1.6
- recent weeks avg
- NE D vs TE
- 11.9
- 9th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 28%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 7
Start Nate Boerkircher: 47 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jonnu Smith's 23 percent of the snaps and 1 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.
TE19 · JAX · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 2.3 pts a game
TE · GB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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 Nate Boerkircher, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Jonnu Smith at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Nate Boerkircher's market-based projection is 2.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Jonnu Smith, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Nate Boerkircher has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 7, Jonnu Smith has been on the field for 28 percent of GB snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 7.8 air yards.
In Week 5 against CHI he was not given the ball.
In Week 6 against DAL he was not given the ball.
In Week 7 against DET he caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Nate Boerkircher is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Jonnu Smith played 17 games and scored 85.2 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE35.
He caught 38 of 54 targets for 222 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 5.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Nate Boerkircher holds the bigger snap share, 48 percent against 28 percent.
This season Nate Boerkircher holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 3 percent.
What would change the answer
Jonnu Smith has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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