Should I start Tre Tucker or Josh Downs in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tre Tucker, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Downs, and the board ranks him 193rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tre Tucker's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Josh Downs is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 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 through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tre Tucker has been on the field for 66 percent of LV snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 14.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 4 of 8 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NE he carried 2 times for -6 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 97 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 6, Josh Downs has been on the field for 81 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 10.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against WAS he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he caught 3 of 6 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TEN he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tre Tucker played 17 games and scored 161.7 PPR points, 9.5 a game, finishing WR38.

He caught 57 of 92 targets for 696 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Tre Tucker was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tre Tucker scored 9.5 PPR points a game and Josh Downs 8.5, 1.0 a game between them.

Tre Tucker finished WR38 that year and Josh Downs WR44.

Tre Tucker had 4 more targets than Josh Downs, 92 to 88.

Tre Tucker had 130 more receiving yards than Josh Downs, 696 to 566.

This season Josh Downs holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 66 percent.

This season Josh Downs holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 17 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Josh Downs has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.