Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Devaughn Vele in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

The market has Brian Robinson Jr. at 6.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Devaughn Vele's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Brian Robinson Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Brian Robinson Jr. has been on the field for 31 percent of ATL snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he carried 2 times for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 91 percent of NO snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he caught 6 of 9 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 3 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brian Robinson Jr. played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.

He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.

That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.

He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Devaughn Vele scored 5.1 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 1.4 a game between them.

Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Devaughn Vele WR95, which are two different ladders.

Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back and Devaughn Vele a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brian Robinson Jr. is off in Week 11 and Devaughn Vele in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Brian Robinson Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.