Should I start Jalen Royals or DeMario Douglas 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.
Week 6 verdict
Start DeMario Douglas over Jalen Royals
- Market projects
- 6.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 53%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
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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WR47 · KC · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 5.2 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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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size229 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 Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th 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
Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 168 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 so far
Through Week 4, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 31 percent of KC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 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 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 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.
DeMario Douglas was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 DeMario Douglas scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 5.3 a game between them.
DeMario Douglas had 43 more targets than Jalen Royals, 46 to 3.
DeMario Douglas had 443 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 447 to 4.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 31 percent.
This season DeMario Douglas holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 5 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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