Jahan Dotson or DeMario Douglas: 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 3:06 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start DeMario Douglas over Jahan Dotson
- Market projects
- 6.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 53%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 67%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 13%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for DeMario Douglas, 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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WR43 · ATL · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 5.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 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 Jahan Dotson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry DeMario Douglas 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
Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 112th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for DeMario Douglas, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 67 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.
In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 3 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 53 percent of NE snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 11.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against JAX he caught 1 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LV he caught 4 of 5 targets for 65 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.
He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.
That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 DeMario Douglas played 17 games and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.
He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 DeMario Douglas scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 2.7 a game between them.
Jahan Dotson finished WR109 that year and DeMario Douglas WR65.
DeMario Douglas had 10 more targets than Jahan Dotson, 46 to 36.
DeMario Douglas had 185 more receiving yards than Jahan Dotson, 447 to 262.
This season Jahan Dotson holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 53 percent.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 13 percent.
What would change the answer
DeMario Douglas has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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