Should I start Puka Nacua or Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 11:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Puka Nacua: 90 percent of the snaps and 34 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Marvin Mims Jr.'s 28 percent of the snaps and 9 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.
WR17 · LAR · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 21.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 48
WR20 · DEN · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 4.6 pts a game
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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 Puka Nacua, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 6.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims Jr., and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Puka Nacua is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.
Marvin Mims Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 52nd highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.
Puka Nacua's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Puka Nacua has been on the field for 86 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 34 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 20 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 3 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 74 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.
In Week 6 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 80 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against LV he carried 2 times for 10 yards, caught 8 of 10 targets for 68 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against LAC he caught 11 of 12 targets for 80 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Marvin Mims Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 53 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he carried 2 times for 19 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Puka Nacua played 16 games and scored 375.0 PPR points, 23.4 a game, finishing WR1.
He caught 129 of 166 targets for 1715 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.
That came to 10.4 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Marvin Mims Jr. 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.
Puka Nacua was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Puka Nacua scored 23.4 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims Jr. 6.2, 17.2 a game between them.
Puka Nacua finished WR1 that year and Marvin Mims Jr. WR66.
Puka Nacua had 115 more targets than Marvin Mims Jr., 166 to 51.
Puka Nacua had 1393 more receiving yards than Marvin Mims Jr., 1715 to 322.
This season Puka Nacua holds the bigger snap share, 86 percent against 28 percent.
This season Puka Nacua holds the bigger target share, 34 percent against 9 percent.
Byes and availability
Puka Nacua is off in Week 11 and Marvin Mims Jr. in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Puka Nacua has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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