Denzel Boston or Rashee Rice: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Rashee Rice over Denzel Boston
- Market projects
- 12.1
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 64%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 14%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 11.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 92%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Rashee Rice, 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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WR22 · CLE · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 11.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · KC · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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 Denzel Boston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Rashee Rice at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Denzel Boston's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Rashee Rice, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 4, Rashee Rice has been on the field for 64 percent of KC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 88 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he was not given the ball.
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Their 2025 seasons
Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Rashee Rice played 8 games and scored 150.1 PPR points, 18.8 a game, finishing WR40.
He caught 53 of 78 targets for 571 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.
That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 73 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Denzel Boston holds the bigger snap share, 92 percent against 64 percent.
This season Denzel Boston holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Denzel Boston is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Rashee Rice.
What would change the answer
Rashee Rice has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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