Should I start Michael Pittman Jr. or Keon Coleman in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 3:01 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Michael Pittman Jr.: 78 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Keon Coleman's 65 percent of the snaps and 15 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Michael Pittman Jr.

WR48 · PIT · bye 9

2025 vs rec yds line 5-12

Market-based projection: 7.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank: 129

Keon Coleman

WR49 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection: 7.7 pts a game

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The gap

Board size329 draftable players

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 Michael Pittman Jr., and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Michael Pittman Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Keon Coleman's market-based projection is 7.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 110th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 78 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.

In 2025 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Michael Pittman Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 64 percent.

This season Keon Coleman holds the bigger target share, 14 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9 and Keon Coleman in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Michael Pittman Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.