Start Devaughn Vele or Deebo Samuel Sr.? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Devaughn Vele over Deebo Samuel Sr.
- Market projects
- 10.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 91%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 19%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 9.6
- recent weeks avg
- WAS D vs WR
- 39.5
- 4th most to WRs (2026)
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Our Week 6 call
Start Devaughn Vele over Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 6.
Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed out on the injury report, so this is not a close call: start Devaughn Vele.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 10.4 fantasy points for Devaughn Vele, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market-based projection for Devaughn Vele is 44 receiving yards and 4-5 receptions, with a 24% chance to score a touchdown (13, 10 and 13 market sources).
No Week 6 player market is posted for Deebo Samuel Sr. yet. His market-based projections were 10.5, 9.3 and 9.1 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 9.6, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
That puts Devaughn Vele 0.8 points ahead of Deebo Samuel Sr. on these projections.
Week 6 matchups
Deebo Samuel Sr. and SF host WAS on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.
WAS allowed 39.6 fantasy points a game to WRs this season over 5 games, the 4th most in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 164 yards and 1.4 touchdowns a game against WAS.
Injury status
Devaughn Vele is not on the injury report.
Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed as out with a hamstring injury.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Devaughn Vele played 91 percent of NO snaps, drew 19 percent of the targets, earned 22 percent of the air yards and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
Devaughn Vele, Week 2 against BAL: 65 of 68 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 64 yards.
Devaughn Vele, Week 3 against LV: 65 of 74 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 39 yards.
Devaughn Vele, Week 4 against ATL: 66 of 74 snaps, 9 targets and 6 catches for 54 yards, 1 touchdown.
Devaughn Vele, Week 5 against MIN: 43 of 45 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 26 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Devaughn Vele played 13 games for NO and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.
He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets and 259 air yards.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR25 · NO · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 61
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
Ranked behind
WR31 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- 77
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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 board16
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 11 and tier 12
- Board size200 draftable players
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