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Zay Flowers or Tee Higgins?

Zay Flowers or Tee Higgins? Both are WRs. Their 2026 through Week 9 figures are below, as of Nov 12, 2026; here is what each man's 2025 season was built on.

Tee Higgins leads on none of the measured inputs — Zay Flowers holds more of every one the file weighs for persistence.

Figures are verified play-by-play (nflverse); scored Half-PPR. Repeatability is measured from year-over-year persistence across 2016 to 2025, not projected. Muffed publishes no projections, draft grades or start/sit advice.

Who led the NFL in target share in 2026?

Zay Flowers

WR · Baltimore Ravens

Tee Higgins

WR · Cincinnati Bengals

Zay Flowers vs Tee Higgins, 2026 through Week 9

Figures as of Nov 12, 2026

Verified 2026 through Week 9 figures for Zay Flowers and Tee Higgins, with each figure's rank in its source population
Metric	Zay Flowers	Tee Higgins
Finish	9	3
Half-PPR/G	13.3	17.0
Target share	26.7%	23.2%
Rec yards	61415th	7585th

A dash means the panel holds no qualifying figure for that player — usually too few games or attempts to clear the metric's floor, not a zero. Ranks are the source's own, against the population shown, and run through the same week as the figures. Not shown, because the panel holds no 2026 through Week 9 figure for either player: Games, Snap share, Availability, Air yards share, Yds/pass snap.

Last season (2025): what repeats

Read off the full 2025 season, not the 2026 through Week 9 table above — part of a season is too little for a persistence read.

Zay Flowers: MIXEDTee Higgins: UNSETTLED

Zay Flowers leads on share of his team's offensive snaps, share of his team's air yards and receiving yards, and also on receiving yards per pass snap — one side of that is opportunity, the other is efficiency, and they have not historically travelled together. Tee Higgins leads on none of the measured inputs — Zay Flowers holds more of every one the file weighs for persistence. Of the two, Tee Higgins's season rests on the steadier ground. That is a statement about what each man's production was built on, not a running order — and it is a description of 2025, not a forecast of 2026.

“Repeats” is measured year-over-year persistence across 2016 to 2025 — opportunity carries between seasons, scoring rate largely does not. This describes what a 2025 season was built on. It is not a forecast, and Muffed publishes no projections, draft grades or start/sit advice. How we measure it.

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The same verified data, told as the story of each man's season.

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Muffed, “Zay Flowers vs Tee Higgins, 2026 through Week 9 verified comparison,” muffed.ai/compare/zay-flowers-vs-tee-higgins. Through Week 9 of the 2026 season. Data via nflverse.

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