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Should I start Jordan Watkins or KaVontae Turpin in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 8:21 PM ET.

Start Jordan Watkins: 34 percent of the snaps and 2 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against KaVontae Turpin's 21 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR89 · SF · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 0-4

Market-based projection
2.7 pts a game

WR90 · DAL · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
2.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
226

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Watkins, and the board ranks him 222nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on KaVontae Turpin, and the board ranks him 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jordan Watkins's market-based projection is 2.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 14 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for KaVontae Turpin, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jordan Watkins has been on the field for 34 percent of SF snaps, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 16.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against SEA he was not given the ball.

Through Week 5, KaVontae Turpin has been on the field for 18 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against BAL he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against HOU he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jordan Watkins played 4 games and scored 4.6 PPR points, 1.2 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 26 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 KaVontae Turpin played 15 games and scored 84.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR77.

He caught 26 of 38 targets for 396 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2-3 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 15.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

KaVontae Turpin was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 KaVontae Turpin scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Jordan Watkins 1.2, 4.5 a game between them.

KaVontae Turpin had 35 more targets than Jordan Watkins, 38 to 3.

KaVontae Turpin had 370 more receiving yards than Jordan Watkins, 396 to 26.

This season Jordan Watkins holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 18 percent.

This season KaVontae Turpin holds the bigger target share, 4 percent against 2 percent.

Byes and availability

KaVontae Turpin is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

KaVontae Turpin has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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