Should I start Braelon Allen or Noah Fant in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 60th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 56 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against CHI he carried 14 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he carried 24 times for 116 yards, caught 1 of 4 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NE he carried 17 times for 78 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Noah Fant has been on the field for 50 percent of NO snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Noah Fant was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Noah Fant scored 5.0 PPR points a game and Braelon Allen 3.8, 1.2 a game between them.

Braelon Allen finished RB100 and Noah Fant TE37, which are two different ladders.

Braelon Allen is a running back and Noah Fant a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Braelon Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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