Dareke Young or Jared Wayne: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dareke Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 231st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jared Wayne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 235th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Dareke Young at 1.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Jared Wayne at 1.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 211th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.

Dareke Young's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Dareke Young has been on the field for 16 percent of LV snaps, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 8.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against LAC he caught 1 of 1 target for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NO he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 3, Jared Wayne has been on the field for 0 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 15.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against CIN he caught 2 of 7 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against IND he caught 1 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dareke Young played 9 games and scored 6.8 PPR points, 0.8 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 48 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.3 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 24.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jared Wayne played 1 game and scored 4.0 PPR points, 4.0 a game.

He caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

Dareke Young was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jared Wayne scored 4.0 PPR points a game and Dareke Young 0.8, 3.2 a game between them.

Dareke Young had 1 more targets than Jared Wayne, 3 to 2.

Dareke Young had 28 more receiving yards than Jared Wayne, 48 to 20.

This season Dareke Young holds the bigger snap share, 16 percent against 0 percent.

This season Jared Wayne holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 2 percent.

What would change the answer

Dareke Young is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.