Should I start Noah Fant or Isaiah Likely in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaiah Likely, and the board ranks him 121st 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 93rd highest figure of the 194 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Isaiah Likely is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Isaiah Likely'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, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 74 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 59 targets have averaged 8.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 7 of 12 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 11 of 13 targets for 94 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 6 of 11 targets for 99 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.

He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Noah Fant was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Noah Fant scored 5.0 PPR points a game and Isaiah Likely 4.4, 0.6 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 that year and Isaiah Likely TE45.

Noah Fant had 5 more targets than Isaiah Likely, 41 to 36.

Isaiah Likely had 19 more receiving yards than Noah Fant, 307 to 288.

This season Isaiah Likely holds the bigger snap share, 74 percent against 52 percent.

This season Isaiah Likely holds the bigger target share, 29 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Isaiah Likely is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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