Should I start Jahan Dotson or Jalen Royals in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Jahan Dotson over Jalen Royals
- Market projects
- 5.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 67%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 13%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 0.1 points a game ahead of Jalen Royals's this season, and that is the order this page leads on. Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, so there is no current draft order to give between them: the market-based projection is the live read on these two.
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- Market-based projection
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- Draft pick
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.1 points a game
- Board size229 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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The market-based projections
Jahan Dotson's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jahan Dotson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 67 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 16.4 air yards.
In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 3 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 54 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Jalen Royals has been on the field for 31 percent of KC snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.
He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.
That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jalen Royals played 7 games and scored 2.4 PPR points, 0.3 a game.
He caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 2.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jahan Dotson was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jahan Dotson scored 3.0 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 2.6 a game between them.
Jahan Dotson had 33 more targets than Jalen Royals, 36 to 3.
Jahan Dotson had 258 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 262 to 4.
This season Jahan Dotson holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 31 percent.
This season Jahan Dotson holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 5 percent.
What would change the answer
0.1 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.
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