Davante Adams or AJ Barner: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davante Adams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on AJ Barner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Davante Adams at 5.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price AJ Barner at 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 63rd highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

Davante Adams's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 45 targets have averaged 15.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 7 of 13 targets for 137 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 4 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 51 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 5, AJ Barner has been on the field for 89 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 5 of 9 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.

He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.

He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

AJ Barner was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Davante Adams scored 15.9 PPR points a game and AJ Barner 8.7, 7.3 a game between them.

Davante Adams finished WR9 and AJ Barner TE14, which are two different ladders.

Davante Adams is a wide receiver and AJ Barner a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Davante Adams is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for AJ Barner.

What would change the answer

Davante Adams is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.