Should I start Joshua Palmer or Rashee Rice in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Joshua Palmer, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashee Rice, and the board ranks him 173rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Joshua Palmer's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 148th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashee Rice is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Rashee Rice's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Joshua Palmer has been on the field for 37 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 23.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 1 of 4 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 1 of 2 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Rashee Rice has been on the field for 64 percent of KC snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 88 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joshua Palmer played 12 games and scored 52.3 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing WR105.

He caught 22 of 37 targets for 303 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rashee Rice played 8 games and scored 150.1 PPR points, 18.8 a game, finishing WR40.

He caught 53 of 78 targets for 571 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 9.8 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 73 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Joshua Palmer was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rashee Rice scored 18.8 PPR points a game and Joshua Palmer 4.4, 14.4 a game between them.

Joshua Palmer finished WR105 that year and Rashee Rice WR40.

Rashee Rice had 41 more targets than Joshua Palmer, 78 to 37.

Rashee Rice had 268 more receiving yards than Joshua Palmer, 571 to 303.

This season Rashee Rice holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 37 percent.

This season Rashee Rice holds the bigger target share, 14 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Rashee Rice is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Joshua Palmer.

Rashee Rice is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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