Should I start Jaylen Waddle or D'Andre Swift in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 237th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 238th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

The market-based projections

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

No season market is posted for D'Andre Swift, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 4 of 7 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 63 percent of CHI snaps, taken 53 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 19 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he carried 27 times for 69 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against TB he carried 12 times for 31 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 2.2 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and D'Andre Swift a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Jaylen Waddle is listed as out on the injury report.