Should I start Harold Fannin Jr. or Emanuel Wilson in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Harold Fannin Jr.'s market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 83 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 4.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against TEN he caught 6 of 9 targets for 91 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 41 percent of SEA snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 7 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 24 times for 100 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.

He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. scored 11.7 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 6.1 a game between them.

Harold Fannin Jr. finished TE6 and Emanuel Wilson RB49, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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.