Darnell Mooney or Jalen Nailor: who should I start 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 14, 2026 at 4:46 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Jalen Nailor over Darnell Mooney
- Market projects
- 5.6
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 48%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 8%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 4.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 59%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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WR · NYG · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
WR · LV · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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
Our board does not carry Darnell Mooney at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Jalen Nailor at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Darnell Mooney, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jalen Nailor, 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 so far
Through Week 5, Darnell Mooney has been on the field for 59 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 13.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against TEN he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 7 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Jalen Nailor has been on the field for 48 percent of LV snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have averaged 12.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against NO he caught 1 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against KC he was not given the ball.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Darnell Mooney played 15 games and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.
He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 44 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jalen Nailor played 17 games and scored 100.7 PPR points, 5.9 a game, finishing WR61.
He caught 29 of 53 targets for 444 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 55 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalen Nailor was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Nailor scored 5.9 PPR points a game and Darnell Mooney 5.5, 0.4 a game between them.
Darnell Mooney finished WR79 that year and Jalen Nailor WR61.
Darnell Mooney had 19 more targets than Jalen Nailor, 72 to 53.
Jalen Nailor had 1 more receiving yards than Darnell Mooney, 444 to 443.
This season Darnell Mooney holds the bigger snap share, 59 percent against 48 percent.
This season Darnell Mooney holds the bigger target share, 10 percent against 8 percent.
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