Should I start Josh Cuevas or Tyler Higbee in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Cuevas, and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Josh Cuevas's market-based projection is 2.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Higbee is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

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.

Through Week 8, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 7.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against LV he caught 2 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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

In 2025 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Tyler Higbee holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 23 percent.

This season Tyler Higbee holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Tyler Higbee is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Josh Cuevas.

What would change the answer

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