BUF · Bye 7
DJ Moore
LMD WR Tier 5 for Week 9 · 7.3 projected Standard points · WR31 rest of season
Questionable
Regular season
Week 9 and rest of season fantasy rankings
We project 7.3 points this week, WR Tier 5. The middle 80% of simulated scores runs 1.9 - 15.3 points. Top 3: 5% · Top 12: 17% · Top 24: 30% of simulated weeks. Listed questionable.
Week 9
WR Tier 5
7.1 - 7.5 projected points
Rest of season
WR31
75th by projected points
Projected
7.3
week 9, Standard
Top 12
17%
Top 3: 5% · Top 24: 30% at WR
Movement
↓ 7
WR20 in Week 8, WR27 now
Should you start DJ Moore in Week 9?
Borderline
It is close. LMD ranks DJ Moore WR27 for Week 9, just outside the WR24 starter line. He finishes inside WR24 in 30% of simulated weeks.
The starter line is a standard 12-team lineup's, and is the line LMD's weekly accuracy review grades this board against.
- Draft / market prior
- Neutral-0.01 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- No mean changeNarrower range-0.06 pts
- AvailabilityUnresolved injury
- No mean changeWider range0.00 pts
- Outside projection
- Slight positive+0.44 pts
- Betting markets
- Slight negative-0.42 pts
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Standard scoring · Updated November 5, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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Limited practice for DJ Moore
Yahoo Sports ·
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Bills' Week 9 Injury Outlook: What We Know About DJ Moore, James Cook, Spencer Brown
Sports Illustrated ·
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Fantasy football Week 8 fallout: Rashee Rice, DJ Moore feast while George Pickens leaves managers famished
CBS Sports ·
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Spencer Brown, Dee Alford inactive for Bills against Ravens; DJ Moore to return to lineup
The Buffalo News ·
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Buffalo Bills Week 8 Inactives: DJ Moore, Dalton Kincaid Will be in Action
Sports Illustrated ·
Headlines from other publishers, discovered automatically and matched to DJ Moore by name -- we did not write these and we do not host them, and each one opens at the publisher who did.
Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 5 completed games DJ Moore has averaged +1.3 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | @ HOU | 5.5 | 16.0 | +10.5 |
| Wk 2 | vs DET | 6.9 | -0.1 | -7.0 |
| Wk 3 | vs LAC | 5.0 | 6.7 | +1.7 |
| Wk 4 | vs NE | 7.5 | 1.7 | -5.8 |
| Wk 5 | @ LAR | 6.5 | Pending | — |
| Wk 6 | @ LV | 7.1 | Pending | — |
| Wk 8 | vs BAL | 5.4 | 12.6 | +7.2 |
| Wk 9 | @ MIN | 7.3 | — | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at WR27. For the rest of the season LMD has him 4 spots lower, at WR31.
Preseason market: WR27 · ADP 48.3
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
WR31 −4
LMD has him 4 spots lower than his WR27 draft price.
Week 9
WR27 Even
Level with his WR27 draft price.
Standard scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
WR27 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Regular season
Why LMD has him here
We project 66.1 points this season, WR31. Top 3: 1% · Top 12: 7% · Top 24: 28% of simulated seasons. That is 7.2 a game over 9.814 remaining games. Listed questionable. Down 2 since the Nov. 4 board.
Per game
7.2 / game
Over 9.814 remaining game(s)
Finishing odds
Top 3: 1% · Top 12: 7% · Top 24: 28%
Share of simulated seasons finishing inside that place at WR
Market input
broad
Broad market coverage across several venues and markets.
LMD Rankings, rankings-v1.5.2. Inputs: Ball Don't Lie (fantasy market, player status, projections); PropLine (player props). · 2026 Rest of season board updated November 5, 2026
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has DJ Moore #90 in 1QB and #93 in Superflex, WR36 at his position. Age 29.
1QB
#90
WR36 · tier 22 · of 300
Superflex
#93
WR36 · tier 17 · of 307
- Last season 147.2 pts 8.7 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 100% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Touches 7.3 / game Carries plus receptions per game; 22% of his team's targets.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated October 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
5.04
pick 52.1 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
5.04
half of simulations take him by pick 52
Draft range
4.06 - 6.03
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in every one
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 5.04 in 52% of simulations
Pick 52 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 4, the same seat picks again at 6.09, where he is available in 3% of simulations.
Slot 4's remaining turns: 5.04 52% · 6.09 3% · 7.04 <1% · 8.09 <1% · 9.04 0%
The middle half of simulations take him between 4.11 and 5.10.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 5.02 | 62% |
| 5.03 | 57% |
| 5.04 | 52% |
| 5.05 | 48% |
| 5.06 | 43% |
| 5.07 | 39% |
| 5.08 | 34% |
| 5.09 | 30% |
| 5.10 | 26% |
| 5.11 | 22% |
| 5.12 | 18% |
| 6.01 | 15% |
| 6.02 | 12% |
| 6.03 | 10% |
| 6.04 | 9% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 4.06 | 2% | 192 of 10000 simulations |
| 4.07 | 2% | 234 of 10000 simulations |
| 4.08 | 3% | 294 of 10000 simulations |
| 4.09 | 3% | 334 of 10000 simulations |
| 4.10 | 4% | 387 of 10000 simulations |
| 4.11 | 5% | 462 of 10000 simulations |
| 4.12 | 5% | 527 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.01 | 4% | 447 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.02 | 5% | 466 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.03 | 5% | 470 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.04 | 4% | 438 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.05 | 5% | 458 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.06 | 5% | 462 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.07 | 5% | 453 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.08 | 5% | 455 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.09 | 4% | 397 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.10 | 3% | 348 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.11 | 4% | 380 of 10000 simulations |
| 5.12 | 3% | 322 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.01 | 3% | 257 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.02 | 2% | 212 of 10000 simulations |
| 6.03 | 2% | 184 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 10000 simulations in which DJ Moore was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- Terry McLaurin WR · WAS 4%
- Rome Odunze WR · CHI 4%
- Jaylen Waddle WR · DEN 4%
- Brock Bowers TE · LV 4%
Usually taken just after
- Terry McLaurin WR · WAS 4%
- Joe Burrow QB · CIN 4%
- Trey McBride TE · ARI 4%
- Rome Odunze WR · CHI 4%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
DJ Moore was selected in 10000 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of November 5, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- November 5, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@c60914d598b9e57d
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-11-05)
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