Should I start Matthew Golden or Chase Brown in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Golden, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

The market-based projections

Matthew Golden's market-based projection is 15.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Chase Brown is 14.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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.

Chase Brown's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 83 percent of GB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 22 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 57 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 3 of 7 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 123 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 6 of 13 targets for 104 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Chase Brown has been on the field for 70 percent of CIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 4 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 13 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 9 times for 10 yards, caught 11 of 11 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 13 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 11.6 a game between them.

Matthew Golden finished WR89 and Chase Brown RB7, which are two different ladders.

Matthew Golden is a wide receiver and Chase Brown a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Matthew Golden is off in Week 11 and Chase Brown in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Chase Brown has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.