Start Josh Downs or Courtland Sutton? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Josh Downs over Courtland Sutton
- Market projects
- 10.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 80%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 8.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 78%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 17%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Josh Downs over Courtland Sutton in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Josh Downs at 10.5 points and Courtland Sutton at 8.4, a gap of 2.1.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 10.5 fantasy points for Josh Downs, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Josh Downs at 45.5 receiving yards and 3.5 receptions, with a 33% chance to score a touchdown (5, 5 and 7 market sources).
Player markets imply 8.4 fantasy points for Courtland Sutton, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Courtland Sutton at 31.5 receiving yards and 3.5 receptions, with a 27% chance to score a touchdown (13, 10 and 13 market sources).
That puts Josh Downs 2.1 points ahead of Courtland Sutton on the market projections.
Injury status
Josh Downs is not on the injury report.
Courtland Sutton is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Josh Downs played 80 percent of IND snaps, drew 20 percent of the targets, earned 29 percent of the air yards and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
Josh Downs, Week 2 against KC: 54 of 65 snaps, 9 targets and 7 catches for 72 yards.
Josh Downs, Week 3 against HOU: 48 of 71 snaps, 11 targets and 5 catches for 77 yards.
Josh Downs, Week 4 against WAS: 51 of 66 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 16 yards.
Josh Downs, Week 5 against PIT: 60 of 71 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 47 yards.
Through Week 5, Courtland Sutton played 78 percent of DEN snaps, drew 17 percent of the targets, earned 33 percent of the air yards and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
Courtland Sutton, Week 2 against JAX: 45 of 62 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 25 yards.
Courtland Sutton, Week 3 against LAR: 58 of 67 snaps, 7 targets and 3 catches for 46 yards.
Courtland Sutton, Week 4 against SF: 48 of 65 snaps, 6 targets and 1 catch for 4 yards.
Courtland Sutton, Week 5 against LAC: 50 of 62 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 18 yards, 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Josh Downs played 16 games for IND and scored 136.4 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR44.
He caught 58 of 88 targets for 566 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets and 422 air yards.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
In 2025, Courtland Sutton played 17 games for DEN and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.
He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets and 795 air yards.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR20 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 40
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
Ranked behind
WR27 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 54
- 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 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board14
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 12 and tier 13
- Board size187 draftable players
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