Nico Collins or Jalen McMillan: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Nico Collins, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR56 · HOU · bye 8
2025 vs rec yds line 7-8
- Books price
- 6.9 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 130
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
WR58 · TB · bye 10
2025 vs catches line 3-1
- Books price
- 6.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Nico Collins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 37.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen McMillan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 164.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Nico Collins, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Jalen McMillan at 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 156th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Nico Collins has been on the field for 72 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 11 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against BUF he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 7 of 10 targets for 75 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Jalen McMillan this season.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.
He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.
That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jalen McMillan played 4 games and scored 29.9 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing WR137.
He caught 12 of 15 targets for 178 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Nico Collins was available for 11 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Nico Collins scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Jalen McMillan 7.5, 7.6 a game between them.
Nico Collins finished WR8 that year and Jalen McMillan WR137.
Nico Collins had 105 more targets than Jalen McMillan, 120 to 15.
Nico Collins had 939 more receiving yards than Jalen McMillan, 1117 to 178.
Byes and availability
Nico Collins is off in Week 8 and Jalen McMillan in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Nico Collins is listed as out on the injury report.
Jalen McMillan is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Nico Collins has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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