Should I start Ladd McConkey or Jaleel McLaughlin in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

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

By format he goes half PPR: ADP 2; standard: ADP 14; 2QB: ADP 35.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Ladd McConkey's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jaleel McLaughlin is 8.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Ladd McConkey has been on the field for 54 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against LV he caught 3 of 3 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 4 of 5 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ladd McConkey played 16 games and scored 180.9 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing WR30.

He caught 66 of 106 targets for 789 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ladd McConkey was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Ladd McConkey scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Jaleel McLaughlin 3.9, 7.4 a game between them.

Ladd McConkey finished WR30 and Jaleel McLaughlin RB82, which are two different ladders.

Ladd McConkey is a wide receiver and Jaleel McLaughlin a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Ladd McConkey is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.

What would change the answer

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