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Should I start Colston Loveland or Zach Charbonnet in Week 7?

Updated Oct 26, 2:26 AM ET.

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Start Colston Loveland: he has been on the field this season, 87 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

TE10 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 2-5

Market-based projection
10.5 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
71

RB27 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection
10.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
72

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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 Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 1.0 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Zach Charbonnet RB24, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland 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

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10 and Zach Charbonnet in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.

Both players in full

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