Troy Franklin or Cody White: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Troy Franklin at 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 168th highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.

The player markets price Cody White at 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 169th highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cody White: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 30 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 18.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

Through Week 4, Cody White has been on the field for 30 percent of LV snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against LAC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 2 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Cody White played 10 games and scored 18.0 PPR points, 1.8 a game.

He caught 3 of 4 targets for 90 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 30.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Cody White 1.8, 8.6 a game between them.

Troy Franklin had 100 more targets than Cody White, 104 to 4.

Troy Franklin had 619 more receiving yards than Cody White, 709 to 90.

Their snap share this season is the same, 30 percent each.

This season Cody White holds the bigger target share, 7 percent against 3 percent.

Byes and availability

Cody White is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.0 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.