Should I start Luther Burden III or Ricky Pearsall in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Luther Burden III: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Luther Burden III: he has been on the field this season, 58 percent of the snaps, and Ricky Pearsall has no snap on record yet. 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.
WR · CHI · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 4-5
- Market-based projection
- 14.8 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 240
WR · SF · bye 8
2025 vs catches line 4-5
- Overall rank
- 241
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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 Luther Burden III, and the board ranks him 240th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 39.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Ricky Pearsall, and the board ranks him 241st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Luther Burden III, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Ricky Pearsall, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Luther Burden III has been on the field for 58 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 22 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.
In Week 7 against NE he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 130 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against SEA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 56 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against TB he caught 7 of 9 targets for 97 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Ricky Pearsall this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Luther Burden III played 15 games and scored 127.9 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR48.
He caught 47 of 60 targets for 652 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Ricky Pearsall played 9 games and scored 88.6 PPR points, 9.8 a game, finishing WR72.
He caught 36 of 53 targets for 528 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Luther Burden III was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Ricky Pearsall scored 9.8 PPR points a game and Luther Burden III 8.5, 1.3 a game between them.
Luther Burden III finished WR48 that year and Ricky Pearsall WR72.
Luther Burden III had 7 more targets than Ricky Pearsall, 60 to 53.
Luther Burden III had 124 more receiving yards than Ricky Pearsall, 652 to 528.
Byes and availability
Luther Burden III is off in Week 10 and Ricky Pearsall in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Luther Burden III is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Ricky Pearsall is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
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