Davante Adams or Rashee Rice: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davante Adams: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Rashee Rice at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

Davante Adams's market-based projection is 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 45 targets have averaged 15.7 air yards.

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.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 51 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 4, Rashee Rice has been on the field for 64 percent of KC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 88 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he was not given the ball.

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 Rashee Rice played 8 games and scored 150.1 PPR points, 18.8 a game, finishing WR40.

He caught 53 of 78 targets for 571 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 73 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Davante Adams was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rashee Rice scored 18.8 PPR points a game and Davante Adams 15.9, 2.8 a game between them.

Davante Adams finished WR9 that year and Rashee Rice WR40.

Davante Adams had 36 more targets than Rashee Rice, 114 to 78.

Davante Adams had 218 more receiving yards than Rashee Rice, 789 to 571.

This season Davante Adams holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 64 percent.

This season Davante Adams holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Davante Adams is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Rashee Rice.

What would change the answer

Rashee Rice has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.