Start Dohnte Meyers or Jalen Nailor? Week 9

Our Week 9 call

Start Jalen Nailor over Dohnte Meyers in Week 9.

Market-based projections have Jalen Nailor at 4.7 points and Dohnte Meyers at 4.4, a gap of 0.3. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Jalen Nailor this week yet, so his 4.7 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 6, 7 and 8 (5.8, 4.0 and 4.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 9 player market is posted for Jalen Nailor yet. His market-based projections were 5.9, 4.0 and 4.3 points in Weeks 6, 7 and 8, an average of 4.7, which stands in until his Week 9 market posts.

Player markets imply 4.4 fantasy points for Dohnte Meyers, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Dohnte Meyers is 17 receiving yards, 1-2 receptions and 0.2 touchdowns (5, 4 and 11 market sources).

That puts Jalen Nailor 0.3 points ahead of Dohnte Meyers on these projections.

Week 9 matchups

Jalen Nailor and LV visit SF on Sunday at 4:25 PM ET.

SF allowed 29.1 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 11th fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 130 yards and 0.9 touchdowns a game against SF.

Dohnte Meyers and CIN visit ATL on Sunday at 9:30 AM ET.

ATL allowed 30.1 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 8 games, the 15th fewest in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 149 yards and 0-1 touchdowns a game against ATL.

By points allowed to the position, Dohnte Meyers has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Jalen Nailor is not on the injury report.

Dohnte Meyers is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 9

Through Week 8, Jalen Nailor played 54 percent of LV snaps, drew 10 percent of the targets, earned 13 percent of the air yards and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

Jalen Nailor, Week 4 against KC: 19 of 84 snaps, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Jalen Nailor, Week 6 against BUF: 42 of 66 snaps, 4 targets and 1 catch for 9 yards.

Jalen Nailor, Week 7 against LAR: 51 of 68 snaps, 5 targets and 2 catches for 14 yards.

Jalen Nailor, Week 8 against NYJ: 29 of 63 snaps, 4 targets and 4 catches for 38 yards, 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Dohnte Meyers played 45 percent of CIN snaps, drew 9 percent of the targets, earned 6 percent of the air yards and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

Dohnte Meyers, Week 4 against JAX: 68 of 76 snaps, 9 targets and 7 catches for 82 yards.

Dohnte Meyers, Week 5 against MIA: 19 of 65 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 12 yards.

Dohnte Meyers, Week 7 against BAL: 20 of 53 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Dohnte Meyers, Week 8 against TEN: 44 of 74 snaps, 3 targets and 3 catches for 34 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Jalen Nailor played 17 games for MIN and scored 100.7 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing WR61.

He caught 29 of 53 targets for 444 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets and 332 air yards.

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

Their other Week 9 calls

• Start Jalen Nailor over Adonai Mitchell.
• Start Jalen Nailor over Darnell Mooney.
• Start Efton Chism III over Jalen Nailor.
• Start Dohnte Meyers over Brian Thomas Jr..
• Start Dohnte Meyers over Darnell Mooney.
• Start Efton Chism III over Dohnte Meyers.