Start Keenan Allen or Denzel Boston? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Denzel Boston over Keenan Allen
Right: 13.9 to 9.2
- JAX D vs WR
- 26.3
- 15th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 92%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 18%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 13.9
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 1.3
- fantasy pts
- BAL D vs WR
- 25.0
- 12th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 67%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 21%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 9.2
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Denzel Boston over Keenan Allen in Week 1.
Keenan Allen is priced by the books at 1.3 projected points and Denzel Boston is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Denzel Boston at ADP 146 and Keenan Allen at 143.
What the books imply
Player prop markets imply 1.3 fantasy points for Keenan Allen, with 33 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
No sportsbook posted a player market for Denzel Boston in Week 1.
Week 1 matchups
Keenan Allen and IND host BAL on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
BAL allowed 25.0 fantasy points to WRs in its one game this season, the 12th fewest in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 130 yards and no touchdowns against BAL.
Denzel Boston and CLE visit JAX.
JAX allowed 26.3 fantasy points to WRs in its one game this season, the 15th fewest in the league.
Receivers caught passes for 128 yards and a touchdown against JAX.
By points allowed to the position, Denzel Boston has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Keenan Allen was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Denzel Boston was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Keenan Allen played 17 games for LAC and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.
He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets and 546 air yards.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Keenan Allen, Week 18 of 2025 against DEN: 13 targets and 7 catches for 36 yards, 10.6 PPR points.
Keenan Allen, Week 17 of 2025 against HOU: 36 of 63 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 17 yards, 2.7 PPR points.
Keenan Allen, Week 16 of 2025 against DAL: 30 of 64 snaps, 5 targets and 5 catches for 44 yards, 9.4 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Denzel Boston scored 13.9 PPR points and Keenan Allen scored 9.2.
The call was right: Denzel Boston outscored Keenan Allen by 4.7.
Denzel Boston, Week 1 against JAX: 47 of 51 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 59 yards, 1 touchdown, 13.9 PPR points.
Denzel Boston finished as the week's WR24 in PPR scoring.
Keenan Allen finished 7.9 points above the 1.3 the props implied.
Keenan Allen, Week 1 against BAL: 36 of 54 snaps, 6 targets and 6 catches for 32 yards, 9.2 PPR points.
Keenan Allen finished as the week's WR38 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR46 · IND · bye 13
2025 vs anytime td line 4-13
- Overall rank
- 125
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
Ranked behind
WR48 · CLE · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 130
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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 board5
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 6
- Board size244 draftable players
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