Should I start Darnell Washington or Emanuel Wilson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 66 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 39 percent of SEA snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 7 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 2.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 21 times for 81 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.

He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.

That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 1.0 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 and Emanuel Wilson RB49, which are two different ladders.

Darnell Washington is a tight end and Emanuel Wilson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and Emanuel Wilson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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