Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Xavier Worthy in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Xavier Worthy's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Xavier Worthy, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Xavier Worthy has been on the field for 81 percent of KC snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 8.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 4 of 7 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 7 of 7 targets for 73 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 Xavier Worthy played 14 games and scored 109.9 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR59.

He caught 42 of 73 targets for 532 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.2 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 12.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaylen Waddle was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Xavier Worthy 7.9, 4.3 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 that year and Xavier Worthy WR59.

Jaylen Waddle had 27 more targets than Xavier Worthy, 100 to 73.

Jaylen Waddle had 378 more receiving yards than Xavier Worthy, 910 to 532.

This season Xavier Worthy holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 68 percent.

This season Jaylen Waddle holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10 and Xavier Worthy in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.6 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.