Should I start Adonai Mitchell or Troy Franklin in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 201st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Adonai Mitchell's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Troy Franklin is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

Troy Franklin's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 67 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 14.0 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.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 40 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 16.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 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 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Adonai Mitchell 5.5, 4.9 a game between them.

Adonai Mitchell finished WR73 that year and Troy Franklin WR31.

Troy Franklin had 30 more targets than Adonai Mitchell, 104 to 74.

Troy Franklin had 256 more receiving yards than Adonai Mitchell, 709 to 453.

This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 40 percent.

This season Adonai Mitchell holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

Troy Franklin has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.