Should I start Tee Higgins or Matthew Golden in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 12th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Golden, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 17.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Matthew Golden is 2.9 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 78 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 12 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 67 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 148 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 10 of 11 targets for 155 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against ATL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 32 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 9, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 83 percent of GB snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 30 of the offence's 94 third down targets, had 3 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 92 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 6 of 12 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 7 of 13 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against NE he caught 10 of 10 targets for 164 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tee Higgins was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 9.1 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 that year and Matthew Golden WR89.

Tee Higgins had 54 more targets than Matthew Golden, 98 to 44.

Tee Higgins had 485 more receiving yards than Matthew Golden, 846 to 361.

This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 78 percent.

This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 23 percent.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6 and Matthew Golden in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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