Oronde Gadsden or Colby Parkinson: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Oronde Gadsden's market-based projection is 5.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 128th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Oronde Gadsden: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colby Parkinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 160th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Oronde Gadsden has been on the field for 48 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 2.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Oronde Gadsden played 15 games and scored 131.4 PPR points, 8.8 a game, finishing TE15.

He caught 49 of 69 targets for 664 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Oronde Gadsden scored 8.8 PPR points a game and Colby Parkinson 8.7, 0.1 a game between them.

Oronde Gadsden finished TE15 that year and Colby Parkinson TE17.

Oronde Gadsden had 13 more targets than Colby Parkinson, 69 to 56.

Oronde Gadsden had 256 more receiving yards than Colby Parkinson, 664 to 408.

This season Colby Parkinson holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 48 percent.

This season Oronde Gadsden holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

Colby Parkinson is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

1.0 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.