Should I start Van Jefferson or Rashod Bateman in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Van Jefferson, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Van Jefferson's market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashod Bateman is 1.4 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Van Jefferson has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.

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

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he caught 5 of 7 targets for 58 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 70 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Van Jefferson played 16 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing WR88.

He caught 29 of 52 targets for 350 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 12.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Van Jefferson was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Van Jefferson scored 4.4 PPR points a game and Rashod Bateman 4.3, 0.1 a game between them.

Van Jefferson finished WR88 that year and Rashod Bateman WR102.

Van Jefferson had 14 more targets than Rashod Bateman, 52 to 38.

Van Jefferson had 126 more receiving yards than Rashod Bateman, 350 to 224.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 25 percent.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Van Jefferson is off in Week 7 and Rashod Bateman in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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