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Should I start Noah Fant or Garrett Wilson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:26 PM ET.

Start Garrett Wilson: 96 percent of the snaps and 29 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Noah Fant's 60 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Noah Fant for Garrett Wilson?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Garrett Wilson projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games), Noah Fant 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE15 · NO · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection
3.6 pts a game

WR41 · NYJ · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Market-based projection
15.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
102

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

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

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

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Garrett Wilson is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Garrett 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, Noah Fant has been on the field for 52 percent of NO snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Garrett Wilson has been on the field for 90 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 9.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 7 of 11 targets for 104 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 4 of 6 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Garrett Wilson played 7 games and scored 99.5 PPR points, 14.2 a game, finishing WR62.

He caught 36 of 59 targets for 395 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 8.4 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 89 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Noah Fant was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Garrett Wilson scored 14.2 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 9.2 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 and Garrett Wilson WR62, which are two different ladders.

Noah Fant is a tight end and Garrett Wilson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Garrett Wilson is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Noah Fant for Garrett Wilson?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Garrett Wilson projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games), Noah Fant 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Garrett Wilson for Noah Fant?

    No. Keep Garrett Wilson: he projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games), Noah Fant 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games).

Both players in full

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