Should I start Marvin Mims or Kayshon Boutte in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kayshon Boutte, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Marvin Mims's market-based projection is 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kayshon Boutte is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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 through Week 6

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 6, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 11.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

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.

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 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.

Marvin Mims was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Kayshon Boutte scored 8.9 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims 6.2, 2.7 a game between them.

Marvin Mims finished WR66 that year and Kayshon Boutte WR51.

Marvin Mims had 5 more targets than Kayshon Boutte, 51 to 46.

Kayshon Boutte had 229 more receiving yards than Marvin Mims, 551 to 322.

This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger snap share, 58 percent against 23 percent.

This season Kayshon Boutte holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Marvin Mims is off in Week 10 and Kayshon Boutte in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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