Should I start Dyami Brown or Troy Franklin in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dyami Brown, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 198th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Dyami Brown's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 145th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Troy Franklin is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Dyami Brown has been on the field for 47 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 16.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 3 of 4 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 1 of 2 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

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

Through Week 7, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 40 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 16.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dyami Brown played 14 games and scored 49.7 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR110.

He caught 20 of 37 targets for 227 yards and 1 touchdown, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 54 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 36 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

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

Troy Franklin was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Dyami Brown 3.6, 6.9 a game between them.

Dyami Brown finished WR110 that year and Troy Franklin WR31.

Troy Franklin had 67 more targets than Dyami Brown, 104 to 37.

Troy Franklin had 482 more receiving yards than Dyami Brown, 709 to 227.

This season Dyami Brown holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 40 percent.

This season Dyami Brown holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Troy Franklin is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Dyami Brown.

What would change the answer

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