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Should I start Courtland Sutton or Jaylin Noel in Week 6?

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.

Updated Oct 16, 10:11 PM ET.

Week 6 verdict

Start Courtland Sutton over Jaylin Noel

Market projects
8.3
fantasy pts
Snap share
78%
Through Week 5
Target share
17%
Through Week 5
Market projects
6.4
recent weeks avg
Snap share
45%
Through Week 5
Target share
10%
Through Week 5
Start Sutton or Noel? The full Week 6 breakdown

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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WR41 · DEN · bye 10

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Market-based projection
8.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
104
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
14

WR85 · HOU · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection
4.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
216
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
24

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size317 draftable players

Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Courtland Sutton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylin Noel: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 216th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

The market-based projection for Jaylin Noel is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Courtland Sutton has been on the field for 78 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 3 of 7 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 6 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Jaylin Noel has been on the field for 45 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he carried 1 time for 8 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 85 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Courtland Sutton played 17 games and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.

He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 7.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jaylin Noel played 17 games and scored 68.4 PPR points, 4.0 a game, finishing WR91.

He caught 26 of 35 targets for 292 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Courtland Sutton scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Jaylin Noel 4.0, 8.9 a game between them.

Courtland Sutton finished WR13 that year and Jaylin Noel WR91.

Courtland Sutton had 89 more targets than Jaylin Noel, 124 to 35.

Courtland Sutton had 725 more receiving yards than Jaylin Noel, 1017 to 292.

This season Courtland Sutton holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 45 percent.

This season Courtland Sutton holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Courtland Sutton is off in Week 10 and Jaylin Noel in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

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