Denzel Boston or Nico Collins: who to draft first
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Nico Collins, 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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WR54 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 7.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR55 · HOU · bye 8
2025 vs rec yds line 7-8
- Books price
- 6.9 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 128
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Denzel Boston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 192.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Nico Collins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 37.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Denzel Boston at 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 148th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Nico Collins, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Denzel Boston has been on the field for 92 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 3 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 28.5 air yards.
In Week 1 against JAX he caught 2 of 4 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 1, Nico Collins has been on the field for 72 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 11 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against BUF he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 7 of 10 targets for 75 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.
He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.
That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Denzel Boston holds the bigger snap share, 92 percent against 72 percent.
This season Nico Collins holds the bigger target share, 27 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Denzel Boston is off in Week 11 and Nico Collins in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Nico Collins is listed as out on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Nico Collins has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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