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

The market-based projections

Adonai Mitchell's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Royals, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 6, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 42 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 2 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Adonai Mitchell was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell scored 5.5 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 5.2 a game between them.

Adonai Mitchell had 71 more targets than Jalen Royals, 74 to 3.

Adonai Mitchell had 449 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 453 to 4.

This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 42 percent.

This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger target share, 25 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

Adonai Mitchell is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jalen Royals.

What would change the answer

0.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.