Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Jake Ferguson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 114th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Zach Charbonnet's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 6, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jake Ferguson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Jake Ferguson 11.1, 0.3 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Jake Ferguson TE5, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Jake Ferguson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Jake Ferguson in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as pup on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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