Should I start Malik Washington or Ladd McConkey in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Malik Washington's market-based projection is 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 82nd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Ladd McConkey's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Washington, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ladd McConkey, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 2; standard: ADP 14; 2QB: ADP 35.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Malik Washington has been on the field for 84 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 11.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 2 times for 3 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Ladd McConkey has been on the field for 46 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 4 of 5 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Washington played 17 games and scored 116.7 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR54.

He caught 46 of 65 targets for 317 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 6.9 yards a catch.

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

In 2025 Ladd McConkey played 16 games and scored 180.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing WR30.

He caught 66 of 106 targets for 789 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Malik Washington was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Ladd McConkey scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Malik Washington 6.9, 4.4 a game between them.

Malik Washington finished WR54 that year and Ladd McConkey WR30.

Ladd McConkey had 41 more targets than Malik Washington, 106 to 65.

Ladd McConkey had 472 more receiving yards than Malik Washington, 789 to 317.

This season Malik Washington holds the bigger snap share, 84 percent against 46 percent.

This season Malik Washington holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Malik Washington is off in Week 6 and Ladd McConkey in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Malik Washington is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Ladd McConkey is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.