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Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 9:26 PM ET.

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Start Tyler Higbee: 71 percent of the snaps and 12 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 Tyler Higbee?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Higbee projects 79 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.9 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB28 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Overall rank
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TE11 · LAR · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
9.4 pts a game

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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 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 81st 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.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 88th 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, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Higbee scored 7.1 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 3.4 a game between them.

Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Tyler Higbee TE40, which are two different ladders.

Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back and Tyler Higbee a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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 Tyler Higbee?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Higbee projects 79 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.9 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 Tyler Higbee for Brian Robinson Jr.?

    No. Keep Tyler Higbee: he projects 79 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (7.9 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.

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