Jalen Brooks or Elijah Higgins: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 126th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Elijah Higgins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 15 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 37 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 4.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against SF he caught 3 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 3 of 3 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.

He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Elijah Higgins played 17 games and scored 58.1 PPR points, 3.4 a game, finishing TE48.

He caught 30 of 37 targets for 301 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Elijah Higgins was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Elijah Higgins scored 3.4 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 2.4 a game between them.

Jalen Brooks is a wide receiver and Elijah Higgins a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

0.3 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.