Should I start Chris Godwin Jr. or Jacob Saylors in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Godwin Jr., and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 21; 2QB: ADP 45.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Chris Godwin Jr. at 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Jacob Saylors is 0.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Chris Godwin Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Chris Godwin Jr. has been on the field for 84 percent of TB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 4.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 6 of 7 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 4 of 8 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 3, Jacob Saylors has been on the field for 3 percent of DET snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chris Godwin Jr. played 9 games and scored 83.0 PPR points, 9.2 a game, finishing WR78.

He caught 33 of 51 targets for 360 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.7 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 71 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jacob Saylors played 16 games and scored 1.1 PPR points, 0.1 a game, finishing RB136.

He carried 2 times for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.1 carries a game at 6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacob Saylors was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chris Godwin Jr. scored 9.2 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 9.2 a game between them.

Chris Godwin Jr. finished WR78 and Jacob Saylors RB136, which are two different ladders.

Chris Godwin Jr. is a wide receiver and Jacob Saylors a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chris Godwin Jr. is off in Week 10 and Jacob Saylors in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.