Should I start Dontayvion Wicks or Jaylin Noel in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Jaylin Noel over Dontayvion Wicks
- Market projects
- 6.4
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 45%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 6.9
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs WR
- 28.4
- 9th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 82%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Jaylin Noel, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR45 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 6.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR86 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 4.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 214
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 32
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size317 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dontayvion Wicks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 125th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylin Noel: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Dontayvion Wicks's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Jaylin Noel is 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.
Jaylin Noel's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Dontayvion Wicks has been on the field for 82 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 13 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against CHI he caught 2 of 5 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAR he caught 3 of 5 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against JAX he caught 5 of 8 targets for 63 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jaylin Noel has been on the field for 45 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 10.1 air yards.
In Week 3 against IND he carried 1 time for 8 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DAL he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 85 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against TEN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dontayvion Wicks played 14 games and scored 75.8 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing WR83.
He caught 30 of 46 targets for 332 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jaylin Noel played 17 games and scored 68.4 PPR points, 4.0 a game, finishing WR91.
He caught 26 of 35 targets for 292 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jaylin Noel was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dontayvion Wicks scored 5.4 PPR points a game and Jaylin Noel 4.0, 1.4 a game between them.
Dontayvion Wicks finished WR83 that year and Jaylin Noel WR91.
Dontayvion Wicks had 11 more targets than Jaylin Noel, 46 to 35.
Dontayvion Wicks had 40 more receiving yards than Jaylin Noel, 332 to 292.
This season Dontayvion Wicks holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 45 percent.
This season Dontayvion Wicks holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 10 percent.
Byes and availability
Dontayvion Wicks is off in Week 10 and Jaylin Noel in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Jaylin Noel is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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