Jahan Dotson or Tyler Badie: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jahan Dotson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 128th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 67 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 3 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.

He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.

That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahan Dotson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jahan Dotson scored 3.0 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 0.7 a game between them.

Jahan Dotson finished WR109 and Tyler Badie RB77, which are two different ladders.

Jahan Dotson is a wide receiver and Tyler Badie a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyler Badie is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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