Should I start Colby Parkinson or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 2:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Colby Parkinson: 56 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against MarShawn Lloyd's 46 percent of the snaps and 36 percent of the carries. 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.

Should I drop Colby Parkinson for MarShawn Lloyd?

Yes, on the rest of the season. MarShawn Lloyd projects 67 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.7 a game over 10 games), Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games).

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

Colby Parkinson

TE21 · LAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 5.8 pts a game

MarShawn Lloyd

RB46 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Market-based projection: 11.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 132

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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 Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for MarShawn Lloyd is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

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

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 39 percent of GB snaps, taken 41 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 7 times for 13 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Side by side

Colby Parkinson is a tight end and MarShawn Lloyd a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

MarShawn Lloyd is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Colby Parkinson for MarShawn Lloyd?
Yes, on the rest of the season. MarShawn Lloyd projects 67 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.7 a game over 10 games), Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop MarShawn Lloyd for Colby Parkinson?
No. Keep MarShawn Lloyd: he projects 67 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.7 a game over 10 games), Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games).