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Should I start Davante Adams or Zachariah Branch in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:11 AM ET.

Start Davante Adams: 84 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Zachariah Branch's 20 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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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.

WR31 · LAR · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
14.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
77

WR33 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Market-based projection
3.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
82

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Davante Adams, and the board ranks him 77th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zachariah Branch, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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.

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

This season through Week 6

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.

Through Week 6, Zachariah Branch has been on the field for 22 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

Zachariah Branch is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Davante Adams holds the bigger snap share, 76 percent against 22 percent.

This season Davante Adams holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Davante Adams is listed as out on the injury report.

Both players in full

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