Should I start Troy Franklin or Daniel Jones in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Jones, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 34.

The market-based projections

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Daniel Jones is 13.5 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 12 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Daniel Jones's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 12.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Daniel Jones has been on the field for 100 percent of IND snaps, dropped back 239 times and thrown 8.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 39 of 239 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 4 against WAS he completed 19 of 34 passes for 143 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 5 against PIT he completed 24 of 44 passes for 267 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 4 yards.

In Week 6 against TEN he completed 22 of 41 passes for 269 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 30 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Daniel Jones played 13 games and scored 234.4 PPR points, 18.0 a game, finishing QB17.

He threw for 3101 yards on 384 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 164 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 29-30 attempts a game at 8.1 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Daniel Jones scored 18.0 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 7.6 a game between them.

Troy Franklin finished WR31 and Daniel Jones QB17, which are two different ladders.

Troy Franklin is a wide receiver and Daniel Jones a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Troy Franklin is off in Week 10 and Daniel Jones in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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