Start Bucky Irving or DeMario Douglas? Week 4

Our Week 4 call

Start Bucky Irving over DeMario Douglas in Week 4.

Market-based projections have Bucky Irving at 12.1 points and DeMario Douglas at 6.9, a gap of 5.3.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 12.1 fantasy points for Bucky Irving, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market has Bucky Irving at 55.5 rushing yards, 12.5 receiving yards and 2.5 receptions, with a 36% chance to score a touchdown (15, 16, 16 and 18 market sources).

Player markets imply 6.9 fantasy points for DeMario Douglas, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market has DeMario Douglas at 29.5 receiving yards and 2.5 receptions, with a 19% chance to score a touchdown (16, 17 and 15 market sources).

That puts Bucky Irving 5.3 points ahead of DeMario Douglas on the market projections.

Injury status

Bucky Irving was not on the injury report when the call was made.

DeMario Douglas was not on the injury report when the call was made.

Usage before Week 4

Through Week 3, Bucky Irving played 64 percent of TB snaps, took 62 percent of the carries, drew 16 percent of the targets and had 30 percent of the red zone chances.

Bucky Irving, Week 1 against CIN: 35 of 57 snaps, 8 carries for 45 yards, 7 targets and 7 catches for 48 yards, 1 touchdown.

Bucky Irving, Week 2 against CLE: 51 of 65 snaps, 17 carries for 89 yards, 4 targets and 4 catches for 1 yards.

Bucky Irving, Week 3 against MIN: 36 of 69 snaps, 15 carries for 46 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 12 yards.

Through Week 3, DeMario Douglas played 57 percent of NE snaps, drew 17 percent of the targets, earned 19 percent of the air yards and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

DeMario Douglas, Week 1 against SEA: 44 of 71 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 20 yards.

DeMario Douglas, Week 2 against PIT: 26 of 55 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 9 yards.

DeMario Douglas, Week 3 against JAX: 37 of 63 snaps, 5 targets and 1 catch for 38 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Bucky Irving played 10 games for TB and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He ran 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 yards.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, DeMario Douglas played 17 games for NE and scored 95.8 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing WR65.

He caught 31 of 46 targets for 447 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets and 233 air yards.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

How Week 4 went

Bucky Irving scored 6.1 PPR points and DeMario Douglas scored 3.5.

The call was right: Bucky Irving outscored DeMario Douglas by 2.6.

Bucky Irving finished 6.0 points below the 12.1 the market projected.

Bucky Irving, Week 4 against GB: 37 of 64 snaps, 16 carries for 61 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 6.1 PPR points.

Bucky Irving finished as the week's RB42 in PPR scoring.

DeMario Douglas finished 3.4 points below the 6.9 the market projected.

DeMario Douglas, Week 4 against BUF: 35 of 76 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 15 yards, 3.5 PPR points.

DeMario Douglas finished as the week's WR80 in PPR scoring.

Their other Week 4 calls

• Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Bucky Irving.
• Start Bucky Irving over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Bucky Irving over Ashton Jeanty.
• Start Brenton Strange over DeMario Douglas.
• Start Brian Thomas Jr. over DeMario Douglas.
• Start DeMario Douglas over Cade Otton.