Michael Pittman Jr. or Michael Wilson: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Michael Wilson, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR46 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rec yds line 5-12
- Books price
- 8.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR67 · ARI · bye 14
2025 vs catches line 8-9
- Overall rank
- 163
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Pittman Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 111.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Michael Wilson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 97.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Michael Pittman Jr. at 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 books. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
The books have Michael Wilson at 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 15 books. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Michael Wilson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Michael Pittman Jr. has been on the field for 88 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 58 yards and did not score.
Through Week 1, Michael Wilson has been on the field for 85 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 11.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against LAC he caught 5 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Michael Pittman Jr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Michael Wilson played 17 games and scored 220.6 PPR points, 13.0 a game, finishing WR10.
He caught 78 of 126 targets for 1006 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 7.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Michael Pittman Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 85 percent.
This season Michael Wilson holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 8 percent.
Byes and availability
Michael Pittman Jr. is off in Week 9 and Michael Wilson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Michael Pittman Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Michael Wilson is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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