Should I start Marvin Harrison Jr. or Lamar Jackson in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 2:21 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Lamar Jackson: 55 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Harrison Jr.'s 21 percent of the snaps and 14 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR20 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market-based projection
- 6.8 pts a game
QB2 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs pass yds line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 19.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 41
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Their Week 9 outlook
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 Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Lamar Jackson, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 3.
The market-based projections
Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 49th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Lamar Jackson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.
In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Lamar Jackson has been on the field for 73 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 112 times and thrown 10.4 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 13 of 112 dropbacks and scrambled 10 times.
In Week 3 against DAL he completed 15 of 20 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 6 times for 50 yards.
In Week 4 against TEN he completed 15 of 20 passes for 222 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 20 yards.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 0 of 1 pass for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.
He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Lamar Jackson played 13 games and scored 221.9 PPR points, 17.1 a game, finishing QB20.
He threw for 2549 yards on 302 attempts with 21 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 349 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 23.2 attempts a game at 8.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 92 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Lamar Jackson was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Lamar Jackson scored 17.1 PPR points a game and Marvin Harrison Jr. 10.7, 6.4 a game between them.
Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR49 and Lamar Jackson QB20, which are two different ladders.
Marvin Harrison Jr. is a wide receiver and Lamar Jackson a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Marvin Harrison Jr. is off in Week 8 and Lamar Jackson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
Lamar Jackson is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Lamar Jackson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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- Fantasy football rankings
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