Should I start Tyjae Spears or Jalen Royals in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Tyjae Spears's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Jalen Royals's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 119th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyjae Spears: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jalen Royals: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 44 percent of TEN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have come 2.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 3 times for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Tyjae Spears was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Jalen Royals 0.3, 8.2 a game between them.

Tyjae Spears is a running back and Jalen Royals a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Jalen Royals.

Tyjae Spears is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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 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.