Josh Downs or Bo Nix: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Downs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Josh Downs at 2.9 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 Bo Nix at 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 5

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 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 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 5.5 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 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 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Josh Downs 8.5, 10.1 a game between them.

Josh Downs finished WR44 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Josh Downs 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

Josh Downs is off in Week 13 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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