Rashod Bateman or DeMario Douglas: 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 Rashod Bateman over DeMario Douglas
- Market projects
- 6.4
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 16%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 6.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 53%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, 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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WR63 · BAL · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 4.0 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 158
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 19
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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
- Board size202 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 Rashod Bateman: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 158th 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
The market-based projection for Rashod Bateman is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 77 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 21 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 46 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against ATL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.
He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 69 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.
Head to head
In 2025 DeMario Douglas scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Rashod Bateman 4.3, 1.4 a game between them.
Rashod Bateman finished WR102 that year and DeMario Douglas WR65.
DeMario Douglas had 8 more targets than Rashod Bateman, 46 to 38.
DeMario Douglas had 223 more receiving yards than Rashod Bateman, 447 to 224.
This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 53 percent.
This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 15 percent.
Byes and availability
Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for DeMario Douglas.
Rashod Bateman is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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