Should I start Isaiah Likely or DK Metcalf in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaiah Likely, and the board ranks him 19th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DK Metcalf, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Isaiah Likely's market-based projection is 11.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for DK Metcalf is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 75 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 69 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 6 of 11 targets for 99 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against HOU he caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, DK Metcalf has been on the field for 95 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 20 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 64 targets have averaged 12.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 11 of 15 targets for 93 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 2 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 1 of 6 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.

He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DK Metcalf played 15 games and scored 187.2 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing WR26.

He caught 59 of 99 targets for 850 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DK Metcalf was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 DK Metcalf scored 12.5 PPR points a game and Isaiah Likely 4.4, 8.1 a game between them.

Isaiah Likely finished TE45 and DK Metcalf WR26, which are two different ladders.

Isaiah Likely is a tight end and DK Metcalf a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Isaiah Likely is off in Week 8 and DK Metcalf in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

DK Metcalf has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.