Should I start Tee Higgins or Mike Evans in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tee Higgins's market-based projection is 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 10th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 4.2 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.

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

This season so far

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 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tee Higgins was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Mike Evans 10.6, 3.5 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 that year and Mike Evans WR76.

Tee Higgins had 37 more targets than Mike Evans, 98 to 61.

Tee Higgins had 478 more receiving yards than Mike Evans, 846 to 368.

This season Tee Higgins holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 55 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 23 percent each.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6 and Mike Evans in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Mike Evans is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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