Should I start Jalen Royals or Devin Singletary in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Royals, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Devin Singletary, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Devin Singletary is 5.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 42 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 2 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Devin Singletary has been on the field for 35 percent of NYG snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 3.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against DAL he carried 6 times for 16 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against LAR he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Devin Singletary played 17 games and scored 108.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing RB45.

He carried 119 times for 437 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 19 targets for 151 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Devin Singletary was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Devin Singletary scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 6.1 a game between them.

Jalen Royals is a wide receiver and Devin Singletary a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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