Denver Defense or Xavier Worthy: 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 10:56 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
- 204
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
WR80 · KC · on bye this week
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- Market price
- 7.7 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 207
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 24
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 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 204th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Xavier Worthy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 207th 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 Xavier Worthy, 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
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Denver Defense this season.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Denver Defense in the last completed season.
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.
Side by side
Denver Defense is a defense and Xavier Worthy 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 Xavier Worthy in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
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