Start DK Metcalf or Denzel Boston? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start DK Metcalf over Denzel Boston
- Market projects
- 12.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 96%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 23%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 10.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 92%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 19%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start DK Metcalf over Denzel Boston in Week 5.
Market-based projections have DK Metcalf at 12.2 points and Denzel Boston at 10.4, a gap of 1.8.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 10.4 fantasy points for Denzel Boston, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Denzel Boston at 47.5 receiving yards and 3.5 receptions, with a 31% chance to score a touchdown (16, 11 and 15 market sources).
Player markets imply 12.2 fantasy points for DK Metcalf, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has DK Metcalf at 51.5 receiving yards and 4.5 receptions, with a 34% chance to score a touchdown (14, 11 and 15 market sources).
That puts DK Metcalf 1.8 points ahead of Denzel Boston on the market projections.
Injury status
Denzel Boston is not on the injury report.
DK Metcalf is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Denzel Boston played 92 percent of CLE snaps, drew 19 percent of the targets, earned 50 percent of the air yards and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
Denzel Boston, Week 1 against JAX: 47 of 51 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 59 yards, 1 touchdown.
Denzel Boston, Week 2 against TB: 54 of 58 snaps, 7 targets and 5 catches for 95 yards, 1 touchdown.
Denzel Boston, Week 3 against CAR: 62 of 70 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 41 yards.
Denzel Boston, Week 4 against PIT: 61 of 64 snaps, 7 targets and 4 catches for 89 yards.
Through Week 4, DK Metcalf played 96 percent of PIT snaps, drew 23 percent of the targets, earned 34 percent of the air yards and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
DK Metcalf, Week 1 against ATL: 64 of 67 snaps, 10 targets and 4 catches for 40 yards.
DK Metcalf, Week 2 against NE: 68 of 70 snaps, 9 targets and 4 catches for 27 yards.
DK Metcalf, Week 3 against CIN: 59 of 62 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 31 yards, 1 touchdown.
DK Metcalf, Week 4 against CLE: 70 of 72 snaps, 9 targets and 5 catches for 115 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, DK Metcalf played 15 games for PIT and scored 187.2 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing WR26.
He caught 59 of 99 targets for 850 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets and 436 air yards.
He was on the field for 87 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR24 · PIT · bye 9
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- 52
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
Ranked behind
WR26 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 60
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
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 board8
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 13 and tier 14
- Board size221 draftable players
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