Should I start Noah Gray or Josh Cuevas in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Noah Gray's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 139th highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 157th highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Gray, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 184th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Noah Gray has been on the field for 58 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 3 of 3 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Josh Cuevas has been on the field for 23 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 4 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Gray played 16 games and scored 38.8 PPR points, 2.4 a game, finishing TE59.

He caught 21 of 37 targets for 178 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 2.3 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Josh Cuevas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Noah Gray holds the bigger snap share, 58 percent against 23 percent.

This season Noah Gray holds the bigger target share, 7 percent against 6 percent.

What would change the answer

1.3 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.