Should I start Malik Washington or Matthew Stafford in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Washington, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Stafford, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Malik Washington's market-based projection is 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 18.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Malik Washington has been on the field for 85 percent of MIA snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 2 times for 5 yards, caught 5 of 10 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 2 times for 3 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 1 time for 18 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 43 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 98 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 260 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 40 of 260 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 4 against PHI he completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

In Week 6 against ARI he completed 25 of 33 passes for 222 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Malik Washington played 17 games and scored 116.7 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing WR54.

He caught 46 of 65 targets for 317 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 6.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.

He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and Malik Washington 6.9, 14.2 a game between them.

Malik Washington finished WR54 and Matthew Stafford QB3, which are two different ladders.

Malik Washington is a wide receiver and Matthew Stafford a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Malik Washington is off in Week 6 and Matthew Stafford in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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