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Should I start Jake Ferguson or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 7:01 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

TE · DAL · at PHI

Market projects
6.4
fantasy pts
PHI D vs TE
11.7
13th fewest to TEs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
64 of 100 at TE
Snap share
68%
Through Week 6
Target share
10%
Through Week 6
Sit

TE · LAR · at LV

Market projects
4.6
recent weeks avg
LV D vs TE
17.7
7th most to TEs (2026)
Upside
High
96 of 100 at TE
Snap share
62%
Through Week 6
Target share
7%
Through Week 6
Start Ferguson or Parkinson? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Jake Ferguson: 68 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Colby Parkinson's 56 percent of the snaps and 7 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.

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

TE11 · DAL · bye 14

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
6.4 pts a game

TE · LAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Overall rank
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The gap

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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 Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 62nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Colby Parkinson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 63rd highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

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

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jake Ferguson was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jake Ferguson scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Colby Parkinson 8.7, 2.4 a game between them.

Jake Ferguson finished TE5 that year and Colby Parkinson TE17.

Jake Ferguson had 46 more targets than Colby Parkinson, 102 to 56.

Jake Ferguson had 192 more receiving yards than Colby Parkinson, 600 to 408.

This season Jake Ferguson holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 62 percent.

This season Jake Ferguson holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

Jake Ferguson is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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