Deebo Samuel Sr. or Pat Freiermuth: 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.
Deebo Samuel Sr. is the start on the latest market-based projection, 8.8 points to Pat Freiermuth's 8.5, with Deebo Samuel Sr. on the market figure from his Week 5 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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WR33 · SF · bye 8
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- Market-based projection
- 8.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 79
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
TE12 · PIT · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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 Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Pat Freiermuth: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Deebo Samuel Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 178 players with a market-based projection.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 69 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against CIN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.
He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Deebo Samuel Sr. is a wide receiver and Pat Freiermuth a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Deebo Samuel Sr. is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Pat Freiermuth.
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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