Should I start Colby Parkinson or Nico Collins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nico Collins, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Nico Collins is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Nico Collins'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, Nico Collins has been on the field for 71 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 12.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 118 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 74 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.

In 2025 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.

He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Nico Collins scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Colby Parkinson 8.7, 6.4 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Nico Collins WR8, which are two different ladders.

Colby Parkinson is a tight end and Nico Collins a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Nico Collins is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

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