Troy Franklin or Jameis Winston: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 109th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jameis Winston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 106th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jameis Winston is 15.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 37 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 5, Jameis Winston has been on the field for 96 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 148 times and thrown 9.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 27 of 148 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 3 against TEN he completed 14 of 22 passes for 118 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 15 yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he completed 18 of 29 passes for 250 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against WAS he completed 33 of 54 passes for 326 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 28 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jameis Winston played 3 games and scored 45.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB46.

He threw for 567 yards on 66 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, and ran for 23 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 22.0 attempts a game at 8.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 14 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameis Winston scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 4.7 a game between them.

Troy Franklin finished WR31 and Jameis Winston QB46, which are two different ladders.

Troy Franklin is a wide receiver and Jameis Winston a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Jameis Winston is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.