Michael Pittman Jr. or Deebo Samuel Sr.: 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 11, 2026 at 12:31 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Michael Pittman Jr., 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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WR34 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rec yds line 5-12
- Overall rank
- 83
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
WR36 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market price
- 9.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size280 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 Michael Pittman Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Michael Pittman Jr. at 9.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 2 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The player markets price Deebo Samuel Sr. at 9.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.
Michael Pittman Jr.'s price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 60 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.
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.
Their last full seasons
The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.
The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Michael Pittman Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 60 percent.
This season Deebo Samuel Sr. holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9 and Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Michael Pittman Jr. is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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