Rashee Rice vs Zay Flowers: Who Should You Start?
If you are choosing between Rashee Rice and Zay Flowers for your lineup, you are not alone. Rashee Rice finished the 2025 season at 15.5 PPG for the Kansas City Chiefs (8 games), and Zay Flowers averaged 11.8 for the Baltimore Ravens (17 games).
That 3.7-point weekly advantage for Rashee Rice is meaningful but not automatic. Fantasy football is a week-to-week sport, and the answer to "who should I start" often changes based on opponent, recent form, and game environment. Season averages set the baseline; weekly context makes the call.
Target volume is the story here. Zay Flowers saw 118 targets in 2025, while Rashee Rice drew 78. That workload gap usually translates into a higher weekly floor for Zay Flowers, even in weeks where Rashee Rice posts the bigger ceiling game. Consistency-minded managers lean toward target share; boom-bust managers chase the upside.
Rashee Rice has his bye in Week 6, and Zay Flowers rests in Week 14. Managers rostering both need waiver wire depth at wide receiver for those two weeks, and that is exactly the kind of planning DraftCall's matchup engine surfaces automatically so you are not scrambling on a Sunday morning.
