Davante Adams or Matthew Golden: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 1:06 AM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start Davante Adams over Matthew Golden
Right: 22.1 to 20.3
- Market projected
- 14.6
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 76%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 24%
- Through Week 4
- Scored
- 22.1
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 12.4
- pre-game
- Target share
- 23%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 20.3
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Davante Adams, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
WR9 · LAR · bye 11
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- Market price
- 14.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 23
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
WR10 · GB · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Market price
- 13.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Davante Adams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Golden: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 26th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Davante Adams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Matthew Golden at 13.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 17th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 38 targets have averaged 16.7 air yards.
In Week 2 against NYG he caught 8 of 10 targets for 195 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 3 against DEN he caught 7 of 13 targets for 137 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against PHI he caught 4 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 85 percent of GB snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 17 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 44 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against ATL he caught 5 of 12 targets for 100 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 3 of 7 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against CHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 123 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.
He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.
That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.
He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 14 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Davante Adams scored 15.9 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 10.9 a game between them.
Davante Adams finished WR9 that year and Matthew Golden WR89.
Davante Adams had 70 more targets than Matthew Golden, 114 to 44.
Davante Adams had 428 more receiving yards than Matthew Golden, 789 to 361.
This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger snap share, 85 percent against 76 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 24 percent each.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
What would change the answer
Davante Adams has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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