Jaylen Waddle or Denzel Boston: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 66th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Denzel Boston's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Denzel Boston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Denzel Boston has been on the field for 92 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he caught 4 of 7 targets for 89 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYJ he caught 3 of 7 targets for 46 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Denzel Boston holds the bigger snap share, 92 percent against 68 percent.

This season Jaylen Waddle holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10 and Denzel Boston in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.