Davante Adams or Bo Nix: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davante Adams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Davante Adams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The player markets price Bo Nix at 15.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 16.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYG he caught 8 of 10 targets for 195 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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.

Through Week 5, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 172 times and thrown 5.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 172 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against LAR he completed 17 of 34 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 7 yards.

In Week 4 against SF he completed 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

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 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Davante Adams 15.9, 2.7 a game between them.

Davante Adams finished WR9 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Davante Adams is a wide receiver and Bo Nix a quarterback, 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 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Davante Adams has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.