Should I start Davante Adams or Tyquan Thornton in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Davante Adams: 82 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tyquan Thornton's 57 percent of the snaps and 15 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR · LAR · bye 11
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- Overall rank
- 270
WR · KC · bye 5
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- Overall rank
- 281
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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 Davante Adams, and the board ranks him 270th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyquan Thornton, and the board ranks him 281st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Davante Adams, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Tyquan Thornton, 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 so far
Through Week 6, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 49 targets have averaged 15.5 air yards.
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.
In Week 6 against ARI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Tyquan Thornton has been on the field for 60 percent of KC snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 18.7 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 4 targets for 86 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 5 of 8 targets for 111 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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 Tyquan Thornton played 14 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR81.
He caught 19 of 37 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 51 percent catch rate and 23.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 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 Tyquan Thornton 5.8, 10.2 a game between them.
Davante Adams finished WR9 that year and Tyquan Thornton WR81.
Davante Adams had 77 more targets than Tyquan Thornton, 114 to 37.
Davante Adams had 351 more receiving yards than Tyquan Thornton, 789 to 438.
This season Davante Adams holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 60 percent.
This season Davante Adams holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Davante Adams is off in Week 11 and Tyquan Thornton in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Davante Adams is listed as ir on the injury report.
Tyquan Thornton is listed as ir on the injury report.
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