Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Noah Fant in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Jaylen Waddle is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 182 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 9.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 4 of 7 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Noah Fant has been on the field for 50 percent of NO snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

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

Jaylen Waddle was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 7.1 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and Noah Fant TE37, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and Noah Fant a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Jaylen Waddle has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.