Should I start Caleb Douglas or Khalil Shakir in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Caleb Douglas's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 70th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Khalil Shakir's market-based projection is 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Caleb Douglas, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Caleb Douglas has been on the field for 82 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 70 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Caleb Douglas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Caleb Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 64 percent.

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 19 percent.

Byes and availability

Caleb Douglas is off in Week 6 and Khalil Shakir in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.2 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.