Should I start Jaylen Waddle or Zay Flowers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Waddle, and the board ranks him 34th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Zay Flowers is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

Zay Flowers'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, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 61 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 8.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 118 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 1 time for 13 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 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 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zay Flowers was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 2.2 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 that year and Zay Flowers WR7.

Zay Flowers had 18 more targets than Jaylen Waddle, 118 to 100.

Zay Flowers had 301 more receiving yards than Jaylen Waddle, 1211 to 910.

This season Jaylen Waddle holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 61 percent.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger target share, 31 percent against 22 percent.

Byes and availability

Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10 and Zay Flowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jaylen Waddle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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