Should I start Zay Flowers or Elijah Higgins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Higgins, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zay Flowers is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 4.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 61 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 8.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 118 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 1 time for 13 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 39 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 3.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Elijah Higgins 3.4, 10.9 a game between them.

Zay Flowers finished WR7 and Elijah Higgins TE48, which are two different ladders.

Zay Flowers 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.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Elijah Higgins.

What would change the answer

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