Should I start Tyler Allgeier or DeVonta Smith in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Allgeier: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on DeVonta Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 11; 2QB: ADP 28.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyler Allgeier is 12.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

DeVonta Smith's market-based projection is 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Tyler Allgeier's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 29 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 2 times for -1 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 8 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 3, DeVonta Smith has been on the field for 93 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 33 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against WAS he caught 3 of 6 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 117 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against CHI he caught 6 of 8 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DeVonta Smith played 17 games and scored 201.8 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR20.

He caught 77 of 113 targets for 1008 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 13.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 DeVonta Smith scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Tyler Allgeier 7.2, 4.6 a game between them.

Tyler Allgeier finished RB39 and DeVonta Smith WR20, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Allgeier is a running back and DeVonta Smith a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyler Allgeier is off in Week 14 and DeVonta Smith in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Tyler Allgeier is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.