Should I start Emanuel Wilson or Zay Flowers in Week 6?
Updated Oct 18, 9:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Start Zay Flowers: 64 percent of the snaps and 31 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Emanuel Wilson's 51 percent of the snaps and 67 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB16 · SEA · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 12.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 42
WR17 · BAL · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 13.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 43
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Emanuel Wilson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Zay Flowers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 42 percent of SEA snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 7 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 2.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against WAS he carried 9 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAC he carried 21 times for 81 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 55 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against DAL he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 84 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 118 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against ATL he carried 1 time for 13 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.
He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.
That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.
He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.
He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 8.8 a game between them.
Emanuel Wilson finished RB49 and Zay Flowers WR7, which are two different ladders.
Emanuel Wilson is a running back and Zay Flowers a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Emanuel Wilson is off in Week 11 and Zay Flowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.
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