Should I start Rico Dowdle or Marvin Mims in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Marvin Mims is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 36 percent of PIT snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Rico Dowdle was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims 6.2, 6.5 a game between them.

Rico Dowdle finished RB18 and Marvin Mims WR66, which are two different ladders.

Rico Dowdle is a running back and Marvin Mims a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Marvin Mims in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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