Brian Thomas Jr. or Laquon Treadwell: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:11 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Laquon Treadwell over Brian Thomas Jr.
- Market projects
- 5.0
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 72%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.2
- fantasy pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Laquon Treadwell, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR45 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 4.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR · IND · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Thomas Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Laquon Treadwell at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Brian Thomas Jr.'s market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Laquon Treadwell, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Brian Thomas Jr. has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.
In Week 3 against NE he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CIN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Laquon Treadwell has been on the field for 72 percent of IND snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 13.1 air yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he caught 1 of 1 target for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PIT he caught 2 of 8 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Brian Thomas Jr. played 14 games and scored 138.8 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing WR42.
He caught 48 of 91 targets for 707 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 14.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Laquon Treadwell played 10 games.
He caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Brian Thomas Jr. was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
Brian Thomas Jr. had 91 more targets than Laquon Treadwell, 91 to 0.
Brian Thomas Jr. had 707 more receiving yards than Laquon Treadwell, 707 to 0.
This season Laquon Treadwell holds the bigger snap share, 72 percent against 48 percent.
This season Brian Thomas Jr. holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Brian Thomas Jr. is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Laquon Treadwell.
What would change the answer
Laquon Treadwell has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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