Tim Patrick or Demond Claiborne: 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 11, 2026 at 1:31 PM ET
Tim Patrick is the start on the latest market price, 1.7 points to Demond Claiborne's 1.4. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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WR94 · NYJ · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 3-13
- Overall rank
- 229
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 20
RB61 · MIN · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 239
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size288 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 Tim Patrick: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Demond Claiborne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 239th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Tim Patrick at 1.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Demond Claiborne at 1.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Tim Patrick's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tim Patrick this season.
Through Week 4, Demond Claiborne has been on the field for 7 percent of MIN snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 32 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he carried 3 times for 1 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIA he carried 3 times for 12 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tim Patrick played 16 games and scored 51.7 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing WR107.
He caught 15 of 24 targets for 187 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 1.5 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 12.5 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Demond Claiborne is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Tim Patrick is a wide receiver and Demond Claiborne a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
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