Start Jakobi Meyers or Tre Tucker? Week 9

Our Week 9 call

Start Jakobi Meyers over Tre Tucker in Week 9.

Market-based projections have Jakobi Meyers at 8.9 points and Tre Tucker at 9.6, a gap of 0.6. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Jakobi Meyers still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player, ADP 91 against 136, and that outweighs a gap this size. No player market is posted for Tre Tucker this week yet, so his 9.6 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 6, 7 and 8 (9.1, 9.2 and 10.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 9 player market is posted for Tre Tucker yet. His market-based projections were 9.1, 9.2 and 10.3 points in Weeks 6, 7 and 8, an average of 9.6, which stands in until his Week 9 market posts.

Player markets imply 8.9 fantasy points for Jakobi Meyers, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market-based projection for Jakobi Meyers is 40 receiving yards, 3-4 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (12, 9 and 11 market sources).

That puts Tre Tucker 0.6 points ahead of Jakobi Meyers on these projections.

Week 9 matchups

Tre Tucker 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 9th fewest in the league.

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

Jakobi Meyers and JAX visit BAL on Thursday at 8:15 PM ET.

BAL allowed 35.8 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 7 games, the 7th most in the league.

Receivers caught passes for 182 yards and 0.6 touchdowns a game against BAL.

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

Injury status

Tre Tucker is not on the injury report.

Jakobi Meyers is listed as questionable with a hamstring injury.

Usage before Week 9

Through Week 8, Tre Tucker played 68 percent of LV snaps, drew 17 percent of the targets, earned 28 percent of the air yards and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

Tre Tucker, Week 5 against NE: 45 of 60 snaps, 2 carries for -6 yards, 5 targets and 4 catches for 41 yards.

Tre Tucker, Week 6 against BUF: 46 of 66 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 97 yards, 2 touchdowns.

Tre Tucker, Week 7 against LAR: 56 of 68 snaps, 12 targets and 5 catches for 103 yards, 1 touchdown.

Tre Tucker, Week 8 against NYJ: 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Through Week 8, Jakobi Meyers played 80 percent of JAX snaps, drew 16 percent of the targets, earned 20 percent of the air yards and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 4 against CIN: 50 of 61 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 33 yards.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 5 against PHI: 61 of 72 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 37 yards.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 6 against HOU: 53 of 71 snaps, 10 targets and 5 catches for 83 yards.

Jakobi Meyers, Week 8 against IND: 3 targets and 2 catches for 24 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Tre Tucker played 17 games for LV and scored 161.7 PPR points, 9.5 a game, finishing WR38.

He caught 57 of 92 targets for 696 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets and 405 air yards.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Jakobi Meyers played 16 games for JAX and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets and 553 air yards.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 9 calls

• Start Chris Godwin Jr. over Tre Tucker.
• Start Courtland Sutton over Tre Tucker.
• Start Tre Tucker over Darius Cooper.
• Start Chris Godwin Jr. over Jakobi Meyers.
• Start Courtland Sutton over Jakobi Meyers.
• Start Jakobi Meyers over Darius Cooper.