Start Chris Godwin Jr. or Rashod Bateman? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Rashod Bateman over Chris Godwin Jr.
- Market projects
- 6.4
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 77%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 16%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.4
- fantasy pts
- PIT D vs WR
- 27.3
- 6th fewest to WRs (2026)
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Our Week 6 call
Start Rashod Bateman over Chris Godwin Jr. in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Rashod Bateman at 6.4 points and Chris Godwin Jr. at 7.4, a gap of 0.9. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Rashod Bateman this week yet, so his 6.4 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (9.7, 5.6 and 4.0); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 7.4 fantasy points for Chris Godwin Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market-based projection for Chris Godwin Jr. is 28 receiving yards and 3-4 receptions, with a 19% chance to score a touchdown (11, 9 and 12 market sources).
No Week 6 player market is posted for Rashod Bateman yet. His market-based projections were 9.7, 5.6 and 4.0 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 6.4, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
The market gives Rashod Bateman a 22% chance to score a touchdown (9 market sources).
That puts Chris Godwin Jr. 0.9 points ahead of Rashod Bateman on these projections.
Week 6 matchups
Chris Godwin Jr. and TB host PIT on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
PIT allowed 27.3 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 5 games, the 6th fewest in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 144 yards and 0.4 touchdowns a game against PIT.
Injury status
Chris Godwin Jr. is not on the injury report.
Rashod Bateman is listed as questionable with a shoulder injury.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Rashod Bateman played 77 percent of BAL snaps, drew 16 percent of the targets, earned 23 percent of the air yards and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
Rashod Bateman, Week 2 against NO: 54 of 58 snaps, 9 targets and 7 catches for 88 yards, 1 touchdown.
Rashod Bateman, Week 3 against DAL: 56 of 64 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 37 yards.
Rashod Bateman, Week 4 against TEN: 30 of 64 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 46 yards.
Rashod Bateman, Week 5 against ATL: 61 of 76 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 62 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Chris Godwin Jr. played 9 games for TB and scored 83.0 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing WR78.
He caught 33 of 51 targets for 360 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets and 154 air yards.
He was on the field for 71 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Chris Godwin Jr., Week 18 of 2025 against CAR: 47 of 67 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 8 yards, 1.8 PPR points.
Chris Godwin Jr., Week 17 of 2025 against MIA: 53 of 67 snaps, 8 targets and 7 catches for 108 yards, 1 touchdown, 23.8 PPR points.
Chris Godwin Jr., Week 16 of 2025 against CAR: 41 of 64 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 30 yards, 8.0 PPR points.
In 2025, Rashod Bateman played 13 games for BAL and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.
He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets and 185 air yards.
He was on the field for 69 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR38 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 102
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
Ranked behind
WR64 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 158
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 17
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board56
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 12 and tier 17
- Board size200 draftable players
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