Jakobi Meyers vs Jayden Higgins: Who Should You Start?
If you are choosing between Jakobi Meyers and Jayden Higgins for your lineup, you are not alone. Jakobi Meyers finished the 2025 season at 8.6 PPG for the Jacksonville Jaguars (16 games), and Jayden Higgins averaged 6.4 for the Houston Texans (17 games).
That 2.2-point weekly advantage for Jakobi Meyers is meaningful but not automatic. Fantasy football is a week-to-week sport, and the answer to "who should I start" often changes based on opponent, recent form, and game environment. Season averages set the baseline; weekly context makes the call.
Target volume is the story here. Jakobi Meyers saw 110 targets in 2025, while Jayden Higgins drew 68. That workload gap usually translates into a higher weekly floor for Jakobi Meyers, even in weeks where Jayden Higgins posts the bigger ceiling game. Consistency-minded managers lean toward target share; boom-bust managers chase the upside.
Jakobi Meyers has his bye in Week 12, and Jayden Higgins rests in Week 14. Managers rostering both need waiver wire depth at wide receiver for those two weeks, and that is exactly the kind of planning DraftCall's matchup engine surfaces automatically so you are not scrambling on a Sunday morning.
