Bucky Irving or Denzel Boston: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Bucky Irving at 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

The player markets price Denzel Boston at 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Denzel Boston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 62 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 17 times for 89 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Denzel Boston has been on the field for 92 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 17.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against TB he caught 5 of 7 targets for 95 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he caught 4 of 7 targets for 89 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Bucky Irving is a running back and Denzel Boston a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Denzel Boston in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.