Should I start Khalil Shakir or Colston Loveland in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 9:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Colston Loveland: 85 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Khalil Shakir's 72 percent of the snaps and 19 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.

Khalil Shakir

WR27 · BUF · bye 7

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Market-based projection: 11.0 pts a game

Colston Loveland

TE11 · CHI · bye 10

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Market-based projection: 9.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 73

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The gap

Board size330 draftable players

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 Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 73rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

The market-based projections

Khalil Shakir's market-based projection is 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 35th highest figure of the 77 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, 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 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

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

Through Week 5, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 85 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Khalil Shakir scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 0.1 a game between them.

Khalil Shakir finished WR36 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Khalil Shakir is a wide receiver and Colston Loveland a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Khalil Shakir is off in Week 7 and Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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