Should I start Jalen Brooks or Troy Franklin in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Jalen Brooks's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Brooks, and the board ranks him 133rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 12.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 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 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Jalen Brooks 1.0, 9.4 a game between them.

Troy Franklin had 98 more targets than Jalen Brooks, 104 to 6.

Troy Franklin had 658 more receiving yards than Jalen Brooks, 709 to 51.

This season Troy Franklin holds the bigger snap share, 39 percent against 21 percent.

This season Jalen Brooks holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

Troy Franklin is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jalen Brooks.

What would change the answer

0.0 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.