Should I start DeMario Douglas or Bo Melton in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 8:41 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start DeMario Douglas: 51 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Bo Melton's 33 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR18 · NE · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 8.4 pts a game
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- Overall rank
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Bo Melton at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking 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
DeMario Douglas's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Bo Melton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 6, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 53 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 7 of 8 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Bo Melton has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.
He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Bo Melton played 16 games and scored 24.2 PPR points, 1.5 a game, finishing WR146.
He caught 4 of 13 targets for 107 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 31 percent catch rate and 26.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
DeMario Douglas was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 DeMario Douglas scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Bo Melton 1.5, 4.1 a game between them.
DeMario Douglas finished WR65 that year and Bo Melton WR146.
DeMario Douglas had 33 more targets than Bo Melton, 46 to 13.
DeMario Douglas had 340 more receiving yards than Bo Melton, 447 to 107.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 25 percent.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 4 percent.
Byes and availability
DeMario Douglas is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Bo Melton.
What would change the answer
Bo Melton has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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