Should I start DeMario Douglas or Joe Burrow in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeMario Douglas, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

DeMario Douglas's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 76th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 18.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Joe Burrow's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 54 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 7 of 8 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 204 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 204 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

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 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DeMario Douglas was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 11.8 a game between them.

DeMario Douglas finished WR65 and Joe Burrow QB29, which are two different ladders.

DeMario Douglas is a wide receiver and Joe Burrow a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

DeMario Douglas is off in Week 11 and Joe Burrow in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Joe Burrow has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.