Should I start Emanuel Wilson or Mike Gesicki in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 138th 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 12 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.

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 216 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 so far

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 5, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson scored 5.6 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 0.1 a game between them.

Emanuel Wilson finished RB49 and Mike Gesicki TE41, which are two different ladders.

Emanuel Wilson is a running back and Mike Gesicki 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 Mike Gesicki in Week 6, 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.