DJ Moore or Deebo Samuel Sr.: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, 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 14, 2026 at 7:41 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start DJ Moore over Deebo Samuel Sr.
- Market projects
- 11.0
- fantasy pts
- LV D vs WR
- 32.3
- 13th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 51%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 9.6
- recent weeks avg
- WAS D vs WR
- 39.5
- 4th most to WRs (2026)
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Deebo Samuel Sr., so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR24 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market-based projection
- 11.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR31 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 8.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 77
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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 DJ Moore: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 16; 2QB: ADP 37.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
DJ Moore's market-based projection is 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Deebo Samuel Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, DJ Moore has been on the field for 51 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have averaged 15.2 air yards.
In Week 2 against DET he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LAC he caught 6 of 10 targets for 67 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 57 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 20 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 DJ Moore played 17 games and scored 170.2 PPR points, 10.0 a game, finishing WR35.
He caught 50 of 85 targets for 682 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Deebo Samuel Sr. holds the bigger snap share, 57 percent against 51 percent.
This season DJ Moore holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 15 percent.
Byes and availability
DJ Moore is off in Week 7 and Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
DJ Moore is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Deebo Samuel Sr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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