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Should I start Darnell Washington or Garrett Wilson in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 7:11 PM ET.

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  • : Garrett Wilson: Questionable to Out (Concussion) (Sleeper injury feed)
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Start Garrett Wilson: 88 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Darnell Washington's 64 percent of the snaps and 13 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.

Should I drop Darnell Washington for Garrett Wilson?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Garrett Wilson projects 102 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (14.6 a game over 7 games), Darnell Washington 50 (6.2 a game over 8 games). Garrett Wilson is listed out.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE9 · PIT · bye 9

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Market-based projection
7.2 pts a game

WR34 · NYJ · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 3-5

Overall rank
82

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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 Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Garrett Wilson, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Garrett Wilson is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Garrett Wilson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Garrett Wilson has been on the field for 88 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 20 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 63 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he caught 6 of 12 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Garrett Wilson played 7 games and scored 99.5 PPR points, 14.2 a game, finishing WR62.

He caught 36 of 59 targets for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darnell Washington was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Garrett Wilson scored 14.2 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 9.6 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Garrett Wilson WR62, which are two different ladders.

Darnell Washington is a tight end and Garrett Wilson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and Garrett Wilson in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Garrett Wilson is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Garrett Wilson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Darnell Washington for Garrett Wilson?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Garrett Wilson projects 102 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (14.6 a game over 7 games), Darnell Washington 50 (6.2 a game over 8 games). Garrett Wilson is listed out.

  • Should I drop Garrett Wilson for Darnell Washington?

    No. Keep Garrett Wilson: he projects 102 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (14.6 a game over 7 games), Darnell Washington 50 (6.2 a game over 8 games). Garrett Wilson is listed out.

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