Should I start Brock Purdy or Malik Washington in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

Malik Washington's market-based projection is 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Washington, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 190 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 190 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

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.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

Through Week 5, Malik Washington has been on the field for 85 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 2 times for 5 yards, caught 5 of 10 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 2 times for 3 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 43 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 Malik Washington played 17 games and scored 116.7 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR54.

He caught 46 of 65 targets for 317 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 6.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Malik Washington was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Malik Washington 6.9, 14.0 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Malik Washington WR54, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Malik Washington 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 Malik Washington in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

8.3 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.