Start Deebo Samuel Sr. or De'Zhaun Stribling? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start De'Zhaun Stribling over Deebo Samuel Sr.
Wrong: 0.0 to 18.0
- Books imply
- 9.5
- fantasy pts
- LAR D vs WR
- 47.9
- 4th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 32%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 0%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 0.0
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 3.9
- fantasy pts
- LAR D vs WR
- 47.9
- 4th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 42%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 21%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 18.0
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start De'Zhaun Stribling over Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 1.
De-vigged player props project De'Zhaun Stribling at 9.5 points and Deebo Samuel Sr. at 3.9, a gap of 5.6. Drafters take De'Zhaun Stribling at ADP 128 and Deebo Samuel Sr. at 119. Market coverage on De'Zhaun Stribling is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the books imply
Player prop markets imply 3.9 fantasy points for Deebo Samuel Sr., with 60 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
Player prop markets imply 9.5 fantasy points for De'Zhaun Stribling, with 70 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
That puts De'Zhaun Stribling 5.6 points ahead of Deebo Samuel Sr. on the books.
Week 1 matchups
Deebo Samuel Sr. and SF visit LAR on Thursday at 8:35 PM ET.
LAR allowed 47.9 fantasy points to WRs in its one game this season, the 4th most in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns against LAR.
De'Zhaun Stribling and SF visit LAR on Thursday at 8:35 PM ET.
LAR allowed 47.9 fantasy points to WRs in its one game this season, the 4th most in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns against LAR.
Injury status
Deebo Samuel Sr. was not on the injury report when the call was made.
De'Zhaun Stribling was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Deebo Samuel Sr. played 16 games for WAS and scored 188.2 PPR points, 11.8 a game, finishing WR25.
He caught 72 of 99 targets for 727 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets and 261 air yards.
He was on the field for 72 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Deebo Samuel Sr., Week 18 of 2025 against PHI: 2 carries for 1 yards, 5 targets and 2 catches for 20 yards, 4.1 PPR points.
Deebo Samuel Sr., Week 17 of 2025 against DAL: 36 of 44 snaps, 2 carries for 25 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 68 yards, 11.3 PPR points.
Deebo Samuel Sr., Week 16 of 2025 against PHI: 44 of 54 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 35 yards, 6.5 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
De'Zhaun Stribling scored 0.0 PPR points and Deebo Samuel Sr. scored 18.0.
The call was wrong: Deebo Samuel Sr. outscored De'Zhaun Stribling by 18.0.
De'Zhaun Stribling finished 9.5 points below the 9.5 the props implied.
De'Zhaun Stribling, Week 1 against LAR: 21 of 65 snaps, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Deebo Samuel Sr. finished 14.1 points above the 3.9 the props implied.
Deebo Samuel Sr., Week 1 against LAR: 27 of 65 snaps, 1 carry for 12 yards, 7 targets and 6 catches for 48 yards, 1 touchdown, 18.0 PPR points.
Deebo Samuel Sr. finished as the week's WR13 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR4 · SF · bye 8
2025 vs rec yds line 8-8
- Overall rank
- 10
- Draft pick
- ADP 10
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
WR71 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 186
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board176
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 10
- Board size244 draftable players
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