Should I drop Tory Horton for Mike Evans?

Not on these numbers alone. Tory Horton projects 33 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.3 a game over 10 games) and Mike Evans 30 (3.0 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Mike Evans is listed questionable.

Should I start Tory Horton or Mike Evans in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 4:21 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Mike Evans: 54 percent of the snaps and 27 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tory Horton's 29 percent of the snaps and 6 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.

Should I drop Mike Evans for Tory Horton?

Not on these numbers alone. Mike Evans projects 30 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.0 a game over 10 games) and Tory Horton 33 (3.3 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Mike Evans is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Tory Horton

WR56 · SEA · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 3.4 pts a game

Mike Evans

WR58 · SF · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Market-based projection: 16.1 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 176

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The gap

Board size310 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 Tory Horton, and the board ranks him 174th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tory Horton's market-based projection is 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 145th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tory Horton has been on the field for 28 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SF he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 1 of 5 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

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 Tory Horton played 8 games and scored 65.1 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing WR96.

He caught 13 of 22 targets for 161 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 47 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.

Both were available for 8 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Mike Evans scored 10.6 PPR points a game and Tory Horton 8.1, 2.5 a game between them.

Tory Horton finished WR96 that year and Mike Evans WR76.

Mike Evans had 39 more targets than Tory Horton, 61 to 22.

Mike Evans had 207 more receiving yards than Tory Horton, 368 to 161.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 28 percent.

This season Mike Evans holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Mike Evans is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Tory Horton.

Mike Evans is listed as questionable 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.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Mike Evans for Tory Horton?
Not on these numbers alone. Mike Evans projects 30 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.0 a game over 10 games) and Tory Horton 33 (3.3 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Mike Evans is listed questionable.
Should I drop Tory Horton for Mike Evans?
Not on these numbers alone. Tory Horton projects 33 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (3.3 a game over 10 games) and Mike Evans 30 (3.0 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Mike Evans is listed questionable.