Should I start Brian Robinson or Pat Freiermuth in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Robinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Pat Freiermuth: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 8.7 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.

Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 95th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 5, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 69 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Pat Freiermuth scored 6.7 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson 3.7, 3.0 a game between them.

Brian Robinson finished RB63 and Pat Freiermuth TE25, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Brian Robinson is off in Week 11 and Pat Freiermuth in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Brian Robinson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.