Evan Engram or Troy Franklin: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Evan Engram at 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 140th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price Troy Franklin at 4.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 158th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Evan Engram has been on the field for 60 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 4.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

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

Through Week 4, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 30 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 18.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 4.0 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

Evan Engram is a tight end and Troy Franklin a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

1.0 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.