Should I start Kayshon Boutte or Kevin Coleman Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Kayshon Boutte: 44 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kevin Coleman Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 8 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR84 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- 192
WR85 · MIA · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 2-5
- Overall rank
- 193
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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 Kayshon Boutte, and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kevin Coleman Jr., and the board ranks him 193rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kayshon Boutte is 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Kevin Coleman Jr. at 0.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Kayshon Boutte's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 54 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.
In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against JAX he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 2 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Kevin Coleman Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 8 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against NE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 46 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kayshon Boutte played 14 games and scored 124.1 PPR points, 8.9 a game, finishing WR51.
He caught 33 of 46 targets for 551 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 16.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kevin Coleman Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 21 percent.
This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 8 percent.
Byes and availability
Kayshon Boutte is off in Week 8 and Kevin Coleman Jr. in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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