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Should I start Terry McLaurin or Jalen McMillan in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 7:01 PM ET.

Start Terry McLaurin: 48 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Jalen McMillan's 7 percent of the snaps and 1 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

WR · WAS · on bye this week

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Market-based projection
10.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
257

WR · TB · bye 10

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Overall rank
261

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Terry McLaurin, and the board ranks him 257th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen McMillan, and the board ranks him 261st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Terry McLaurin, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Jalen McMillan, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Terry McLaurin has been on the field for 61 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 12.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against SEA he caught 6 of 9 targets for 77 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 4 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 1 of 1 target for 27 yards and did not score.

Through Week 3, Jalen McMillan has been on the field for 7 percent of TB snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 15.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CLE he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against MIN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Terry McLaurin played 10 games and scored 114.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing WR56.

He caught 38 of 60 targets for 582 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 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.

Terry McLaurin was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Terry McLaurin scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Jalen McMillan 7.5, 3.9 a game between them.

Terry McLaurin finished WR56 that year and Jalen McMillan WR137.

Terry McLaurin had 45 more targets than Jalen McMillan, 60 to 15.

Terry McLaurin had 404 more receiving yards than Jalen McMillan, 582 to 178.

This season Terry McLaurin holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 7 percent.

This season Terry McLaurin holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 1 percent.

Byes and availability

Terry McLaurin is off in Week 7 and Jalen McMillan in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Terry McLaurin is listed as out on the injury report.

Jalen McMillan is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

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