Start Khalil Shakir or Denzel Boston? Week 5
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Khalil Shakir over Denzel Boston
- Market projects
- 10.7
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 62%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 21%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 10.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 92%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 19%
- Through Week 4
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Our Week 5 call
Start Khalil Shakir over Denzel Boston in Week 5.
Market-based projections have Khalil Shakir at 10.7 points and Denzel Boston at 10.5, a gap of 0.2. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 10.7 fantasy points for Khalil Shakir, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Khalil Shakir at 43.5 receiving yards and 4.5 receptions, with a 28% chance to score a touchdown (5, 4 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 10.5 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 32% chance to score a touchdown (13, 12 and 14 market sources).
That puts Khalil Shakir 0.2 points ahead of Denzel Boston on the market projections.
Injury status
Khalil Shakir is not on the injury report.
Denzel Boston is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 5
Through Week 4, Khalil Shakir played 62 percent of BUF snaps, drew 21 percent of the targets, earned 13 percent of the air yards and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
Khalil Shakir, Week 1 against HOU: 31 of 58 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 40 yards.
Khalil Shakir, Week 2 against DET: 36 of 74 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 38 yards.
Khalil Shakir, Week 3 against LAC: 48 of 66 snaps, 3 targets and 1 catch for 6 yards.
Khalil Shakir, Week 4 against NE: 45 of 59 snaps, 8 targets and 7 catches for 82 yards.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Khalil Shakir played 16 games for BUF and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.
He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets and 178 air yards.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 5 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR24 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 53
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
Ranked behind
WR26 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 58
- 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 board5
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 14
- Board size258 draftable players
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