Should I start Dylan Sampson or Jalen Royals in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dylan Sampson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 6.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 4

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.

Through Week 4, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 31 percent of KC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.

That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Dylan Sampson was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 5.5 a game between them.

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

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Jalen Royals.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Dylan Sampson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.