Should I start Jaleel McLaughlin or Brian Robinson in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jaleel McLaughlin's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 8.3 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's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

Through Week 5, Brian Robinson has been on the field for 33 percent of ATL snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against GB he carried 10 times for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Brian Robinson 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.

Brian Robinson was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin scored 3.9 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson 3.7, 0.2 a game between them.

Jaleel McLaughlin finished RB82 that year and Brian Robinson RB63.

Brian Robinson had 55 more carries than Jaleel McLaughlin, 92 to 37.

Brian Robinson had 4 more catches than Jaleel McLaughlin, 8 to 4.

This season Brian Robinson holds the bigger snap share, 33 percent against 10 percent.

This season Brian Robinson holds the bigger share of the carries, 32 percent against 2 percent.

Byes and availability

Brian Robinson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.

What would change the answer

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