Should I start Zachariah Branch or Jerry Jeudy in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 10:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Jerry Jeudy over Zachariah Branch
- Market projects
- 3.5
- recent weeks avg
- TEN D vs WR
- 35.9
- 9th most to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 59%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 11%
- Through Week 6
- Market projects
- 2.4
- recent weeks avg
- SF D vs WR
- 29.9
- 10th fewest to WRs (2026)
- Snap share
- 24%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 6
Start Jerry Jeudy: 61 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Zachariah Branch's 25 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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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.
WR30 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 3.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 76
WR68 · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Market-based projection
- 3.9 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 161
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The gap
- Board size299 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Zachariah Branch, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jerry Jeudy, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Zachariah Branch, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market-based projection for Jerry Jeudy is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Zachariah Branch has been on the field for 24 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 1.1 air yards.
In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against CHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Jerry Jeudy has been on the field for 59 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.
In Week 4 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 36 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NYJ he caught 3 of 7 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against BAL he caught 4 of 4 targets for 69 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Zachariah Branch is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Jerry Jeudy played 17 games and scored 120.7 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing WR52.
He caught 50 of 106 targets for 602 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 47 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Head to head
This season Jerry Jeudy holds the bigger snap share, 59 percent against 24 percent.
This season Jerry Jeudy holds the bigger target share, 11 percent against 6 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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