Should I start Efton Chism or Davante Adams in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Efton Chism, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Davante Adams, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Efton Chism's market-based projection is 4.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 196 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Davante Adams is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Efton Chism has been on the field for 47 percent of NE snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Davante Adams has been on the field for 76 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 11 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 15.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 4 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 51 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Efton Chism played 8 games and scored 16.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game.

He caught 3 of 3 targets for 75 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 25.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Davante Adams played 14 games and scored 222.9 PPR points, 15.9 a game, finishing WR9.

He caught 60 of 114 targets for 789 yards and 14 touchdowns, with 31 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 53 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Davante Adams was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Davante Adams scored 15.9 PPR points a game and Efton Chism 2.1, 13.9 a game between them.

Davante Adams had 111 more targets than Efton Chism, 114 to 3.

Davante Adams had 714 more receiving yards than Efton Chism, 789 to 75.

This season Davante Adams holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 47 percent.

This season Davante Adams holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Davante Adams is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Efton Chism.

Davante Adams is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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