Should I start Tommy Tremble or DeVonta Smith in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on DeVonta Smith, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 11; 2QB: ADP 28.

The market-based projections

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for DeVonta Smith is 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 56 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 5.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 3 of 4 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 6, DeVonta Smith has been on the field for 86 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 33 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 41 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 117 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against CHI he caught 6 of 8 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 7 of 14 targets for 75 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 DeVonta Smith played 17 games and scored 201.8 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing WR20.

He caught 77 of 113 targets for 1008 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 13.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 DeVonta Smith scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Tommy Tremble 3.8, 8.1 a game between them.

Tommy Tremble finished TE42 and DeVonta Smith WR20, which are two different ladders.

Tommy Tremble is a tight end and DeVonta Smith a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tommy Tremble is off in Week 5 and DeVonta Smith in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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