Should I start Joe Burrow or Jahan Dotson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 4:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Joe Burrow: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jahan Dotson's 71 percent of the snaps and 14 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 Jahan Dotson for Joe Burrow?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Joe Burrow projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.9 a game over 11 games), Jahan Dotson 50 (5.0 a game over 10 games).

Parlae may earn a commission from price links.

Your next move

More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.

Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Joe Burrow

QB6 · CIN · bye 6

2026 vs pass yds line 2-3

Overall rank: 58

Jahan Dotson

WR27 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection: 5.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 59

Make this call for your own roster

Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.

Sync my league

Sleeper ESPN Yahoo

Or get it by email

Tuesday 8am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.

Free. One a week, one tap to stop.

The gap

Board size299 draftable players

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 Joe Burrow, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahan Dotson, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Joe Burrow is 18.5 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Jahan Dotson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Joe Burrow has been on the field for 100 percent of CIN snaps, dropped back 204 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 204 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 3 against PIT he completed 28 of 37 passes for 282 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against JAX he completed 39 of 54 passes for 428 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 3 times for 6 yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he completed 23 of 32 passes for 190 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.

Through Week 6, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 70 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 16.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against CHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 87 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Joe Burrow played 8 games and scored 139.5 PPR points, 17.4 a game, finishing QB29.

He threw for 1809 yards on 259 attempts with 17 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, and ran for 41 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 32.4 attempts a game at 7.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Jahan Dotson was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Joe Burrow scored 17.4 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 14.5 a game between them.

Joe Burrow finished QB29 and Jahan Dotson WR109, which are two different ladders.

Joe Burrow is a quarterback and Jahan Dotson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Joe Burrow is off in Week 6 and Jahan Dotson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Jahan Dotson for Joe Burrow?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Joe Burrow projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.9 a game over 11 games), Jahan Dotson 50 (5.0 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Joe Burrow for Jahan Dotson?
No. Keep Joe Burrow: he projects 186 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.9 a game over 11 games), Jahan Dotson 50 (5.0 a game over 10 games).