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Should I start Rashid Shaheed or Kaelon Black in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 12:46 PM ET.

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Start Rashid Shaheed: 41 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kaelon Black's 31 percent of the snaps and 34 percent of the carries. 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.

WR64 · SEA · bye 11

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Overall rank
156

RB42 · SF · bye 8

Market-based projection
9.9 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
170

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Their Week 10 outlook

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 Rashid Shaheed, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 50.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaelon Black, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Rashid Shaheed is 1.4 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-based projection for Kaelon Black is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 49 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Kaelon Black has been on the field for 29 percent of SF snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 3 of its 28 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 8 times for 34 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ATL he carried 12 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for -4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against LV he carried 11 times for 70 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kaelon Black is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Rashid Shaheed is a wide receiver and Kaelon Black a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rashid Shaheed is off in Week 11 and Kaelon Black in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rashid Shaheed is listed as out on the injury report.

Both players in full

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