Should I start Brian Robinson or Tyler Higbee in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 8.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 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 7.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 208 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, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 53 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 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 62 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

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 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 was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

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

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

Brian Robinson 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.

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.