Khalil Shakir or Jaylen Waddle: who should I start in Week 5?
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 2:21 AM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start Khalil Shakir over Jaylen Waddle
Right: 11.0 to 4.8
- Market projected
- 11.2
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 62%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 21%
- Through Week 4
- Scored
- 11.0
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 12.5
- pre-game
- LAC D vs WR
- 33.4
- 15th most to WRs (2026)
- Target share
- 23%
- Week 5
- Scored
- 4.8
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Khalil Shakir, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
WR12 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market price
- 11.4 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 34
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
WR13 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market price
- 11.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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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 stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Khalil Shakir: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 34th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Khalil Shakir, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Jaylen Waddle at 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 62 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 23 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
In Week 2 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 38 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 82 yards and did not score.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.
He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Khalil Shakir 10.4, 1.7 a game between them.
Khalil Shakir finished WR36 that year and Jaylen Waddle WR24.
Jaylen Waddle had 5 more targets than Khalil Shakir, 100 to 95.
Jaylen Waddle had 191 more receiving yards than Khalil Shakir, 910 to 719.
This season Jaylen Waddle holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 62 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 21 percent each.
Byes and availability
Khalil Shakir is off in Week 7 and Jaylen Waddle in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Khalil Shakir has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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