Start Carnell Tate or Khalil Shakir? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Carnell Tate over Khalil Shakir
- Market projects
- 10.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 84%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 30%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 10.7
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 62%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 21%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Carnell Tate over Khalil Shakir in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Carnell Tate at 10.9 points and Khalil Shakir at 10.7, a gap of 0.2. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 10.9 fantasy points for Carnell Tate, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Carnell Tate at 50.5 receiving yards and 4.5 receptions, with a 22% chance to score a touchdown (15, 12 and 14 market sources).
Player markets imply 10.7 fantasy points for Khalil Shakir, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Khalil Shakir at 43.5 receiving yards, with a 28% chance to score a touchdown (5 and 14 market sources).
That puts Carnell Tate 0.2 points ahead of Khalil Shakir on the market projections.
Injury status
Carnell Tate is listed as questionable with a back injury.
Khalil Shakir is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Carnell Tate played 84 percent of TEN snaps, drew 30 percent of the targets, earned 48 percent of the air yards and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
Carnell Tate, Week 1 against NYJ: 44 of 50 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 38 yards.
Carnell Tate, Week 2 against PHI: 40 of 53 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 27 yards.
Carnell Tate, Week 3 against NYG: 53 of 60 snaps, 9 targets and 6 catches for 58 yards.
Carnell Tate, Week 4 against BAL: 54 of 64 snaps, 12 targets and 9 catches for 145 yards.
Through Week 4, Khalil Shakir played 62 percent of BUF snaps, drew 21 percent of the targets, earned 13 percent of the air yards and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
Khalil Shakir, Week 1 against HOU: 31 of 58 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 40 yards.
Khalil Shakir, Week 2 against DET: 36 of 74 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 38 yards.
Khalil Shakir, Week 3 against LAC: 48 of 66 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 6 yards.
Khalil Shakir, Week 4 against NE: 45 of 59 snaps, 8 targets and 7 catches for 82 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Khalil Shakir played 16 games for BUF and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.
He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets and 178 air yards.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR23 · TEN · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 53
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
Ranked behind
WR25 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 57
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 5, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board4
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 13
- Board size254 draftable players
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