Xavier Worthy 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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Xavier Worthy over DeMario Douglas
- Market projects
- 8.3
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 80%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 19%
- Through Week 4
- 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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WR57 · KC · bye 5
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- Overall rank
- 152
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 19
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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Also deciding this week
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 Xavier Worthy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd 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 Xavier Worthy is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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 so far
Through Week 4, Xavier Worthy has been on the field for 80 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 5 of 7 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 4 of 7 targets for 70 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 Xavier Worthy played 14 games and scored 109.9 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR59.
He caught 42 of 73 targets for 532 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 5.2 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 12.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 70 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 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Xavier Worthy scored 7.9 PPR points a game and DeMario Douglas 5.6, 2.2 a game between them.
Xavier Worthy finished WR59 that year and DeMario Douglas WR65.
Xavier Worthy had 27 more targets than DeMario Douglas, 73 to 46.
Xavier Worthy had 85 more receiving yards than DeMario Douglas, 532 to 447.
This season Xavier Worthy holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 53 percent.
This season Xavier Worthy holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 15 percent.
Byes and availability
Xavier Worthy is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for DeMario Douglas.
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