Jaylen Waddle or J.K. Dobbins: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Drafters have formed no consensus on J.K. Dobbins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jaylen Waddle at 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 128 players the market prices.

The market has J.K. Dobbins at 11.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

J.K. Dobbins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 6 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 17 times for 49 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 11 times for 40 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.

He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaylen Waddle was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and J.K. Dobbins 11.6, 0.5 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and J.K. Dobbins RB43, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and J.K. Dobbins a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

J.K. Dobbins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.