Mike Gesicki or DeMario Douglas: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 12, 2026 at 4:46 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them 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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TE25 · CIN · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 6.9 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 143
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
WR58 · NE · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 144
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 20
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 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 Mike Gesicki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on DeMario Douglas: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Mike Gesicki, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for DeMario Douglas, 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 through Week 4
Through Week 4, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 4, DeMario Douglas has been on the field for 54 percent of NE snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 14 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.
In Week 2 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.
He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 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 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 DeMario Douglas scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 0.2 a game between them.
Mike Gesicki finished TE41 and DeMario Douglas WR65, which are two different ladders.
Mike Gesicki is a tight end and DeMario Douglas a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
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