Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Troy Franklin in Week 6?
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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Jaylen Waddle over Troy Franklin
Right: 6.4 to 1.2
- Market projected
- 10.8
- pre-game
- SEA D vs WR
- 24.3
- 3rd fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 21%
- Through Week 5
- Scored
- 6.4
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 4.2
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 37%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5
- Scored
- 1.2
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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WR24 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 10.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 58
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
WR52 · DEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 4.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 152
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size229 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jaylen Waddle, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Troy Franklin, 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 through Week 5
Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
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.
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.
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 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.
Troy Franklin was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 1.7 a game between them.
Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 that year and Troy Franklin WR31.
Troy Franklin had 4 more targets than Jaylen Waddle, 104 to 100.
Jaylen Waddle had 201 more receiving yards than Troy Franklin, 910 to 709.
This season Jaylen Waddle holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 37 percent.
This season Jaylen Waddle holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 4 percent.
Byes and availability
Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Troy Franklin.
Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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