Rashid Shaheed or Tyler Badie: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rashid Shaheed: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 50.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rashid Shaheed's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 128th highest figure of the 177 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 54 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 2 times for 33 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 20 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.

He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.

That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashid Shaheed was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rashid Shaheed scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 6.5 a game between them.

Rashid Shaheed finished WR39 and Tyler Badie RB77, which are two different ladders.

Rashid Shaheed is a wide receiver and Tyler Badie a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rashid Shaheed is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Tyler Badie.

What would change the answer

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