Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Jaylin Noel in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylin Noel, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Jaylin Noel's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 113th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 6, Jaylin Noel has been on the field for 46 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 11.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 85 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 4 targets for 107 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jaylin Noel played 17 games and scored 68.4 PPR points, 4.0 a game, finishing WR91.

He caught 26 of 35 targets for 292 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 27 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jaylin Noel was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Jaylin Noel 4.0, 7.3 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Jaylin Noel WR91, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Jaylin Noel a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Jaylin Noel in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as pup on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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