Jaylen Waddle or Josh Allen: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM ET
Jaylen Waddle is not in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Josh Allen, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR13 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market price
- 11.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
QB1 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 7-0
- Market price
- 23.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 26
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
- Tier
- 1
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room has them
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.
Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.
His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.
He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
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 25th highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Josh Allen, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 69 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 4, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 9.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against DET he completed 20 of 31 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 11 times for 72 yards.
In Week 3 against LAC he completed 16 of 26 passes for 204 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 7 times for 23 yards.
In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.
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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 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Allen was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 9.9 a game between them.
Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and Josh Allen QB1, which are two different ladders.
Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and Josh Allen a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10 and Josh Allen in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Josh Allen has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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