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Should I start Josh Downs or Cyrus Allen in Week 10?

Updated Nov 11, 3:21 AM ET.

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  • : Josh Downs: IND to KC (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Josh Downs: 80 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Cyrus Allen's 35 percent of the snaps and 6 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Josh Downs

WR87 · KC · bye 5

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Market-based projection
10.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
185

Cyrus Allen

WR89 · KC · bye 5

Overall rank
227

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The gap

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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 Josh Downs, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cyrus Allen, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Josh Downs is 0.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Josh Downs has been on the field for 81 percent of IND snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 57 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against MIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against JAX he caught 4 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against DAL he caught 3 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Cyrus Allen has been on the field for 17 percent of KC snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 11.7 air yards.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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 5-6 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.

Cyrus Allen is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Josh Downs holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 17 percent.

This season Josh Downs holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 5, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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