Should I start Trey McBride or Josh Cuevas in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 96th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Trey McBride is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Trey McBride has been on the field for 91 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 23 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 4 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 86 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 7 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 72 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 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 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 Trey McBride holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 23 percent.

This season Trey McBride holds the bigger target share, 27 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Trey McBride is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.

What would change the answer

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