Jaylen Wright or Rashod Bateman: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Wright: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rashod Bateman: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 160th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Jaylen Wright at 5.7 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Rashod Bateman at 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 166th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

Jaylen Wright's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 12 percent of MIA snaps, taken 12 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

In Week 1 against LV he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 2 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 76 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against NO he caught 7 of 9 targets for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against DAL he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashod Bateman was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Wright scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Rashod Bateman 4.3, 0.6 a game between them.

Jaylen Wright finished RB70 and Rashod Bateman WR102, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Wright is a running back and Rashod Bateman a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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