Should I start Jalen Hurts or Adonai Mitchell in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Hurts, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 155th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The market-based projection for Adonai Mitchell is 2.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.

In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.

In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.

Through Week 2, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 76 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 15.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.

He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.

That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.

He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Adonai Mitchell 5.5, 13.6 a game between them.

Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Adonai Mitchell WR73, which are two different ladders.

Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Adonai Mitchell a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jalen Hurts is off in Week 10 and Adonai Mitchell in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jalen Hurts is listed as ir on the injury report.

Adonai Mitchell is listed as doubtful on the injury report.