Should I start Emanuel Wilson or Evan Engram in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 39 percent of SEA snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 7 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 2.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 21 times for 81 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Evan Engram has been on the field for 57 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.

He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.

That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 0.9 a game between them.

Emanuel Wilson finished RB49 and Evan Engram TE29, which are two different ladders.

Emanuel Wilson is a running back and Evan Engram a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Emanuel Wilson is off in Week 11 and Evan Engram in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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