Head to head · July 2026 draft-day read
Mike Evans or Rome Odunze?
Rome Odunze was the stronger 2025 producer — 10.3 vs 8.7 half-PPR points per game, at essentially the same July 2026 draft cost (ADP 48.5 vs 54.2). That gap was the draft-day case for Rome Odunze.
This week's projections are in the Week 9 start/sit card below. The July 2026 draft-day read that follows is opinion, framed from the cited 2025 data.
This week's start/sit · Half-PPR
Week 9: start Mike Evans or Rome Odunze?
Rome Odunze is the safer start: Mike Evans missed Week 7 and his Week 9 status isn't known yet.
If Mike Evans is cleared, his projection is 11.5 vs Rome Odunze's 8.8.
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WR · SF · Status unknown
Mike Evans
11.5 pts projected if he plays · range 5.0–20.3
Missed Week 7 — Week 9 status not reported yet (first practice report Wed, Nov 4)
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WR · CHI
Rome Odunze
8.8 pts projected · range 2.3–17.6
2026 season · the games so far
2026 head-to-head so far
Through Week 8, Mike Evans has out-scored Rome Odunze by 6.2 PPR points per game, 14.8 to 8.6 (Mike Evans 6 games, Rome Odunze 7 games).
Through Week 8 · Week 8 in progress — 13 of 14 games final · nflverse stats as of
| Mike Evans | Metric | Rome Odunze |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Games | 7 |
| 14.8 | PPR points per game | 8.6 |
| 23% | Target share | 17% |
| 6.5 | Targets per game | 5.4 |
| 54% | Snap share | 85% |
| 17.1 | PPR points per game, last 3 games | 7.6 |
Purple marks the higher figure. Shares are team-relative, averaged per game; snap share counts only games with a published snap count. "Last 3 games" is each player's own last 3 games played. A dash means no 2026 figure. 2026 regular season via nflverse.
Game by game: Mike Evans · Rome Odunze
Draft-day record · July 2026
The July 2026 draft-day read
This is the July 2026 pre-draft read, kept as published. Every ADP and market figure on this page comes from the Fantasy Football Calculator snapshot of Jul 15, 2026 and is not updated in-season — 2026 drafts are over and ADP has stopped moving. In-season tools
Metric by metric
The tale of the tape
| Mike Evans | Metric | Rome Odunze |
|---|---|---|
| 48.5 (WR26) | Draft ADP (July 2026) | 54.2 (WR27) |
| 52 | Overall ADP rank (July 2026) | 55 |
| 8.7 | Fantasy points / game | 10.3 |
| 24.3% | Target share | — |
| 20.3% | Target share, last 3 games (2025) | — |
| 47 | Sleeper search rank (July 2026) | 48 |
Purple marks the better figure. A dash means the engine did not cite that metric for that player. 2025 regular season via nflverse · ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator, Jul 15, 2026 snapshot.
The consensus read
July 2026 drafts separated them by a hair — Mike Evans at ADP 48.5, Rome Odunze at ADP 54.2. On 2025 production it is 8.7 vs 10.3 half-PPR points per game.
What had to be true
This call flipped on beliefs that were checkable at the time. Every belief was tied to a checkpoint: the exact data point that would confirm or deny it, with its value at the time of the July 2026 read.
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Checkpoint · Mike Evans
Target share, last 3 games vs season (2025)
20.3% last 3 vs 24.3% season (2025) · as of July 2026
Strong move if you believed
Mike Evans's late-2025 target dip was matchup noise, not a role change
Poor move if instead
Mike Evans's target share is fading from the season baseline
Sources: Fantasy Football Calculator · Sleeper · nflverse. Every figure here is a value the analysis engine cited from the underlying data. Stats are 2025 regular season via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0); ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot, not updated in-season).
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