Denver Defense or Jayden Reed: 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 7, 2026 at 7:21 PM 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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DEF3 · DEN · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 202
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
WR78 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 1-6
- Overall rank
- 203
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 18
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Denver Defense: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 202nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jayden Reed: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 203rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Denver Defense, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jayden Reed, 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 2
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Denver Defense this season.
Through Week 2, Jayden Reed has been on the field for 32 percent of GB snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 5.6 air yards.
In Week 1 against MIN he caught 3 of 7 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NYJ he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Denver Defense in the last completed season.
In 2025 Jayden Reed played 7 games and scored 48.5 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR114.
He caught 19 of 22 targets for 207 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 86 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Denver Defense is a defense and Jayden Reed a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Denver Defense is off in Week 10 and Jayden Reed in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jayden Reed is listed as ir on the injury report.
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