Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Jalen McMillan in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Brian Robinson Jr.: Listed Questionable (Hamstring) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Brian Robinson Jr.: 27 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jalen McMillan's 7 percent of the snaps and 1 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB28 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Overall rank
- 81
WR · TB · bye 10
2025 vs catches line 3-1
- Overall rank
- 277
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Their Week 7 outlook
The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen McMillan, and the board ranks him 277th 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.
No season market is posted for Jalen McMillan, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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 3, Jalen McMillan has been on the field for 7 percent of TB snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 15.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against CLE he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against MIN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Jalen McMillan played 4 games and scored 29.9 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing WR137.
He caught 12 of 15 targets for 178 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 13 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jalen McMillan scored 7.5 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 3.8 a game between them.
Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Jalen McMillan WR137, which are two different ladders.
Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back and Jalen McMillan 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 Jalen McMillan in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
Jalen McMillan is listed as ir on the injury report.
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