Colby Parkinson or Bo Melton: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

Bo Melton's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colby Parkinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Melton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 2.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Bo Melton has been on the field for 25 percent of GB snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against ATL he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bo Melton played 16 games and scored 24.2 PPR points, 1.5 a game, finishing WR146.

He caught 4 of 13 targets for 107 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 31 percent catch rate and 26.8 yards a catch.

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

Bo Melton was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Bo Melton 1.5, 7.1 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Bo Melton WR146, which are two different ladders.

Colby Parkinson is a tight end and Bo Melton a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Colby Parkinson is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.1 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.