Should I start Colby Parkinson or Zach Charbonnet in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

Zach Charbonnet'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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Colby Parkinson 8.7, 2.7 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Zach Charbonnet RB24, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as pup on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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