Blake Corum or Jaylen Waddle: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

What the player markets price

The market has Blake Corum at 11.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 6 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Jaylen Waddle at 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 143 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he carried 6 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 5 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he carried 5 times for 19 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8.5 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

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

Blake Corum was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 4.9 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 and Jaylen Waddle WR24, which are two different ladders.

Blake Corum is a running back and Jaylen Waddle a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Blake Corum is off in Week 11 and Jaylen Waddle in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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