Skip to main content
parlae.ioBeta
Sign in

Should I start Marvin Harrison Jr. or Ricky Pearsall in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 11:41 AM ET.

Start Marvin Harrison Jr.: he has been on the field this season, 21 percent of the snaps, and Ricky Pearsall has no snap on record yet. 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.

Parlae may earn a commission from price links.

Advertisement

Your next move

More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.

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.

Marvin Harrison Jr.

WR · HOU · on bye this week

2026 vs anytime td line 1-3

Overall rank
226

Ricky Pearsall

WR · SF · on bye this week

2025 vs catches line 4-5

Overall rank
228

Make this call for your own roster

Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.

Sync my league

SleeperESPNYahoo

Or get it by email

Tuesday 7am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.

Free. One a week, one tap to stop.

The gap

  • Board size293 draftable players

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 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ricky Pearsall, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Marvin Harrison Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Ricky Pearsall, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 7

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Ricky Pearsall this season.

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 Ricky Pearsall played 9 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing WR72.

He caught 36 of 53 targets for 528 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Marvin Harrison Jr. was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Ricky Pearsall 9.8, 0.8 a game between them.

Marvin Harrison Jr. finished WR49 that year and Ricky Pearsall WR72.

Marvin Harrison Jr. had 20 more targets than Ricky Pearsall, 73 to 53.

Marvin Harrison Jr. had 80 more receiving yards than Ricky Pearsall, 608 to 528.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Ricky Pearsall is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

Week 8 on the board

Next duels