Should I start Josh Downs or Theo Wease Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 12, 1:36 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Josh Downs: IND to KC (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Josh Downs: 80 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Theo Wease Jr.'s 56 percent of the snaps and 7 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR91 · KC · bye 5
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- Market-based projection
- 10.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 216
WR92 · LAC · bye 7
- Overall rank
- 218
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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 Josh Downs, and the board ranks him 216th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Theo Wease Jr., and the board ranks him 218th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Josh Downs is 0.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Theo Wease Jr. at 0.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Josh Downs's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 9, Josh Downs has been on the field for 81 percent of IND snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 18 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 57 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.
In Week 7 against MIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against JAX he caught 4 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against DAL he caught 3 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Theo Wease Jr. has been on the field for 56 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 19 third down targets and seen 2 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against KC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Josh Downs played 16 games and scored 136.4 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR44.
He caught 58 of 88 targets for 566 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Theo Wease Jr. played 3 games and scored 25.9 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing WR143.
He caught 6 of 10 targets for 139 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 23.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Downs was available for 13 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Theo Wease Jr. scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Josh Downs 8.5, 0.1 a game between them.
Josh Downs finished WR44 that year and Theo Wease Jr. WR143.
Josh Downs had 78 more targets than Theo Wease Jr., 88 to 10.
Josh Downs had 427 more receiving yards than Theo Wease Jr., 566 to 139.
This season Josh Downs holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 56 percent.
This season Josh Downs holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 7 percent.
Byes and availability
Josh Downs is off in Week 5 and Theo Wease Jr. in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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