Should I start Jalen Brooks or Rashod Bateman in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Brooks, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 177th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashod Bateman is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jalen Brooks has been on the field for 21 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 13.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 2 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 70 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashod Bateman was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rashod Bateman scored 4.3 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 3.2 a game between them.

Rashod Bateman had 32 more targets than Jalen Brooks, 38 to 6.

Rashod Bateman had 173 more receiving yards than Jalen Brooks, 224 to 51.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 21 percent.

This season Rashod Bateman holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Rashod Bateman is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Jalen Brooks.

Rashod Bateman is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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