Should I start Rashod Bateman or Kyle Monangai in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Monangai, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rashod Bateman's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 62nd highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyle Monangai is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 71 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 13.8 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Kyle Monangai has been on the field for 41 percent of CHI snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 6 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 10 times for 47 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 30 times for 146 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kyle Monangai played 17 games and scored 146.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB30.

He carried 169 times for 783 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 30 targets for 164 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Monangai was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Monangai scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Rashod Bateman 4.3, 4.4 a game between them.

Rashod Bateman finished WR102 and Kyle Monangai RB30, which are two different ladders.

Rashod Bateman is a wide receiver and Kyle Monangai a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13 and Kyle Monangai in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Kyle Monangai is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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