Should I start Jalen Royals or Jalen Brooks 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 Jalen Royals over Jalen Brooks
- Market projects
- 5.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 31%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 4.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5
Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 0.7 points a game ahead of Jalen Brooks'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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WR47 · KC · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 5.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
WR48 · ARI · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 4.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Price difference0.7 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.
The market-based projections
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.
Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.
Where the draft room stands
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.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Brooks: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 5, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 15 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 37 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.
In Week 5 against DET he caught 2 of 7 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Jalen Brooks played 6 games and scored 6.1 PPR points, 1.0 a game.
He caught 3 of 6 targets for 51 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 1.0 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 17.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 32 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalen Royals was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jalen Brooks scored 1.0 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 0.7 a game between them.
Jalen Brooks had 3 more targets than Jalen Royals, 6 to 3.
Jalen Brooks had 47 more receiving yards than Jalen Royals, 51 to 4.
This season Jalen Royals holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 15 percent.
This season Jalen Royals holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 4 percent.
What would change the answer
0.7 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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