Start Bucky Irving or Denzel Boston? Week 4

Our Week 4 call

Start Bucky Irving over Denzel Boston in Week 4.

Market-based projections have Bucky Irving at 12.3 points and Denzel Boston at 8.1, a gap of 4.2.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 12.3 fantasy points for Bucky Irving, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market has Bucky Irving at 56.5 rushing yards, 13.5 receiving yards and 2.5 receptions, with a 36% chance to score a touchdown (15, 16, 15 and 15 market sources).

Player markets imply 8.1 fantasy points for Denzel Boston, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.

The market has Denzel Boston at 37.5 receiving yards and 2.5 receptions, with a 24% chance to score a touchdown (17, 17 and 17 market sources).

That puts Bucky Irving 4.2 points ahead of Denzel Boston on the market projections.

Injury status

Bucky Irving was listed as questionable when the call was made.

Denzel Boston 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, Denzel Boston played 91 percent of CLE snaps, drew 18 percent of the targets, earned 44 percent of the air yards and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

Denzel Boston, Week 1 against JAX: 47 of 51 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 59 yards, 1 touchdown.

Denzel Boston, Week 2 against TB: 54 of 58 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 95 yards, 1 touchdown.

Denzel Boston, Week 3 against CAR: 62 of 70 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 41 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.

How Week 4 went

Bucky Irving scored 6.1 PPR points and Denzel Boston scored 12.9.

The call was wrong: Denzel Boston outscored Bucky Irving by 6.8.

Bucky Irving finished 6.2 points below the 12.3 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.

Denzel Boston finished 4.8 points above the 8.1 the market projected.

Denzel Boston, Week 4 against PIT: 61 of 64 snaps, 7 targets and 4 catches for 89 yards, 12.9 PPR points.

Denzel Boston finished as the week's WR30 in PPR scoring.

Their other Week 4 calls

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• Start Bucky Irving over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Bucky Irving over Ashton Jeanty.
• Start AJ Barner over Denzel Boston.
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