Josh Downs or Adonai Mitchell: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Josh Downs over Adonai Mitchell
- Market projects
- 11.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 80%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 9.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 76%
- Through Week 2
- Target share
- 25%
- Through Week 2
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Adonai Mitchell, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR19 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 11.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · NYJ · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 2-14
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Downs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Adonai Mitchell at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Josh Downs's market-based projection is 11.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Adonai Mitchell, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Josh Downs has been on the field for 80 percent of IND snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 34 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he caught 5 of 11 targets for 77 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PIT he caught 3 of 6 targets for 47 yards and did not score.
Through Week 2, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 76 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 15.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Josh Downs played 16 games and scored 136.4 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR44.
He caught 58 of 88 targets for 566 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.
He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Downs scored 8.5 PPR points a game and Adonai Mitchell 5.5, 3.0 a game between them.
Josh Downs finished WR44 that year and Adonai Mitchell WR73.
Josh Downs had 14 more targets than Adonai Mitchell, 88 to 74.
Josh Downs had 113 more receiving yards than Adonai Mitchell, 566 to 453.
This season Josh Downs holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 76 percent.
This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 20 percent.
Byes and availability
Josh Downs is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Adonai Mitchell.
Josh Downs is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Adonai Mitchell has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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