Should I start Rico Dowdle or Kayshon Boutte in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Kayshon Boutte's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 131st highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kayshon Boutte: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Kayshon Boutte has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 12.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kayshon Boutte played 14 games and scored 124.1 PPR points, 8.9 a game, finishing WR51.

He caught 33 of 46 targets for 551 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 16.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Kayshon Boutte 8.9, 3.9 a game between them.

Rico Dowdle finished RB18 and Kayshon Boutte WR51, which are two different ladders.

Rico Dowdle is a running back and Kayshon Boutte a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Kayshon Boutte in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

The market has them level, so the first line that moves is the whole answer.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.