DeMario Douglas or Jalen Nailor: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 9:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start DeMario Douglas over Jalen Nailor
- Market projects
- 6.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 53%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.6
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 48%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 8%
- Through Week 4
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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WR · NE · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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- 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
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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
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.
Our board does not carry Jalen Nailor 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
No season market is posted for DeMario Douglas, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jalen Nailor, 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 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.
Through Week 4, Jalen Nailor has been on the field for 48 percent of LV snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against NO he caught 1 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against KC he was not given the ball.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Jalen Nailor played 17 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing WR61.
He caught 29 of 53 targets for 444 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 55 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Nailor scored 5.9 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 0.3 a game between them.
DeMario Douglas finished WR65 that year and Jalen Nailor WR61.
Jalen Nailor had 7 more targets than DeMario Douglas, 53 to 46.
DeMario Douglas had 3 more receiving yards than Jalen Nailor, 447 to 444.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 48 percent.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 8 percent.
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