Should I start Michael Wilson or Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : Brian Robinson Jr.: Listed Questionable (Hamstring) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Michael Wilson: 90 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Brian Robinson Jr.'s 27 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries. 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.
Should I drop Brian Robinson Jr. for Michael Wilson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Michael Wilson projects 112 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (11.2 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
Parlae may earn a commission from price links.
Advertisement
Your next move
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
WR27 · ARI · bye 14
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 11.2 pts a game
RB28 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Overall rank
- 81
Make this call for your own roster
Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.
Or get it by email
Tuesday 8am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.
Free. One a week, one tap to stop.
The gap
- Board size315 draftable players
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 Michael Wilson, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Michael Wilson's market-based projection is 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.
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.
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, Michael Wilson has been on the field for 90 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 15 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 4 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 14 of its 40 two minute targets.
His 58 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.
In Week 4 against NYG he caught 7 of 13 targets for 95 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DET he caught 4 of 7 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LAR he caught 4 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Michael Wilson played 17 games and scored 220.6 PPR points, 13.0 a game, finishing WR10.
He caught 78 of 126 targets for 1006 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 7.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Michael Wilson scored 13.0 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 9.3 a game between them.
Michael Wilson finished WR10 and Brian Robinson Jr. RB63, which are two different ladders.
Michael Wilson is a wide receiver and Brian Robinson Jr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Michael Wilson is off in Week 14 and Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 11, 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.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Brian Robinson Jr. for Michael Wilson?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Michael Wilson projects 112 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (11.2 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
Should I drop Michael Wilson for Brian Robinson Jr.?
No. Keep Michael Wilson: he projects 112 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (11.2 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
- Is Michael Wilson playing Week 7?
- Is Brian Robinson Jr. playing Week 7?
- Cardinals depth chart
- Falcons depth chart
- Week 7 RB rankings
- Week 7 WR rankings
- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
- Week 7 defense rankings









