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Should I start Marvin Mims or Jordan Watkins in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 8:21 PM ET.

Start Jordan Watkins: 34 percent of the snaps and 2 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Mims's 25 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR87 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
3.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
217

WR89 · SF · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

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 Marvin Mims, and the board ranks him 217th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Watkins, and the board ranks him 222nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Marvin Mims, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Jordan Watkins's market-based projection is 2.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 14 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Marvin Mims has been on the field for 23 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Jordan Watkins has been on the field for 34 percent of SF snaps, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 16.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against SEA he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Marvin Mims played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.

He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jordan Watkins played 4 games and scored 4.6 PPR points, 1.2 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Marvin Mims was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Marvin Mims scored 6.2 PPR points a game and Jordan Watkins 1.2, 5.1 a game between them.

Marvin Mims had 48 more targets than Jordan Watkins, 51 to 3.

Marvin Mims had 296 more receiving yards than Jordan Watkins, 322 to 26.

This season Jordan Watkins holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 23 percent.

This season Marvin Mims holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 2 percent.

Byes and availability

Marvin Mims is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jordan Watkins.

What would change the answer

Marvin Mims 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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