Should I start Brock Purdy or DK Metcalf in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 9:16 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Brock Purdy: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against DK Metcalf's 95 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets. 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 DK Metcalf for Brock Purdy?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), DK Metcalf 115 (11.5 a game over 10 games).

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

Brock Purdy

QB1 · SF · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 23.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 16

DK Metcalf

WR9 · PIT · bye 9

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 12.6 pts a game

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The gap

Board size298 draftable players

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 Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 16th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DK Metcalf, and the board ranks him 17th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Brock Purdy, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

DK Metcalf's market-based projection is 12.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 20th highest figure of the 182 players with a market-based projection.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 156 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 20 of 156 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against ARI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 297 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 6, DK Metcalf has been on the field for 95 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 1 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 12.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 5 of 9 targets for 115 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 11 of 15 targets for 93 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DK Metcalf played 15 games and scored 187.2 PPR points, 12.5 a game, finishing WR26.

He caught 59 of 99 targets for 850 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

DK Metcalf was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and DK Metcalf 12.5, 8.3 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and DK Metcalf WR26, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and DK Metcalf a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and DK Metcalf in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Brock Purdy has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop DK Metcalf for Brock Purdy?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), DK Metcalf 115 (11.5 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Brock Purdy for DK Metcalf?
No. Keep Brock Purdy: he projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), DK Metcalf 115 (11.5 a game over 10 games).