Jakobi Meyers or Sam LaPorta: Who Should You Start?

The call

• Role is locked in: WR-2 on the depth chart with a 79% snap share over 3 games, and no injury designation, so the floor is predictable.
• Volume is the limiter. A 15% target share drives a 10.8 PPR projection, which is flex-level output rather than a weekly WR2 number.
• CIN grades 15 of 32 against WRs, essentially neutral. It's only a 3-game sample (confidence 0.25), so it shouldn't move the call either way.
• Game environment helps: a 24.5 implied team total and a 2.5-point spread point to a competitive game with enough passing to support him. Pivot to a flex option projected clearly above 10.8 if you have one.

The call

• Role is the anchor: a 90% snap share and 18% target share over three games is elite usage at a thin position, and he carries no injury designation.
• Game environment helps: a 25.3 implied team total as a 3-point favorite points to plenty of scoring chances and a neutral-to-positive script.
• The matchup is middling at 18 of 32 vs TEs, but that rests on a 3-game sample with 0.25 confidence, so it shouldn't move the needle against his usage.
• At TE8 with an 11.2-point projection, he clears typical replacement-level tight ends comfortably, consistent with the model's start-lean.