Should I start Marvin Mims or Nico Collins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Mims, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nico Collins, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Marvin Mims's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Nico Collins is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Marvin Mims has been on the field for 23 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Nico Collins has been on the field for 71 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 12.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 118 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against JAX he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 74 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Marvin Mims played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.

He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Nico Collins played 15 games and scored 226.2 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing WR8.

He caught 71 of 120 targets for 1117 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 8.0 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 15.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 77 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Nico Collins scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims 6.2, 8.9 a game between them.

Marvin Mims finished WR66 that year and Nico Collins WR8.

Nico Collins had 69 more targets than Marvin Mims, 120 to 51.

Nico Collins had 795 more receiving yards than Marvin Mims, 1117 to 322.

This season Nico Collins holds the bigger snap share, 71 percent against 23 percent.

This season Nico Collins holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Marvin Mims is off in Week 10 and Nico Collins in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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