Khalil Shakir or Tory Horton: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Khalil Shakir: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tory Horton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Khalil Shakir is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

Tory Horton's market-based projection is 1.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 151st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 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 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 82 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tory Horton has been on the field for 22 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 3 of 3 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SF he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.

He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tory Horton played 8 games and scored 65.1 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing WR96.

He caught 13 of 22 targets for 161 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Khalil Shakir was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Khalil Shakir scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Tory Horton 8.1, 2.3 a game between them.

Khalil Shakir finished WR36 that year and Tory Horton WR96.

Khalil Shakir had 73 more targets than Tory Horton, 95 to 22.

Khalil Shakir had 558 more receiving yards than Tory Horton, 719 to 161.

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger snap share, 64 percent against 22 percent.

This season Khalil Shakir holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 3 percent.

Byes and availability

Khalil Shakir is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Tory Horton.

What would change the answer

Khalil Shakir is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.