Marvin Mims or Zay Flowers: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Marvin Mims: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Zay Flowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Marvin Mims's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 131st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Zay Flowers is 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 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 5

Through Week 5, Marvin Mims has been on the field for 22 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 2.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against KC he was not given the ball.

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.

Through Week 5, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 55 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against DAL he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 84 yards and did not score.

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.

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 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 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Marvin Mims 6.2, 8.1 a game between them.

Marvin Mims finished WR66 that year and Zay Flowers WR7.

Zay Flowers had 67 more targets than Marvin Mims, 118 to 51.

Zay Flowers had 889 more receiving yards than Marvin Mims, 1211 to 322.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 22 percent.

This season Zay Flowers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Marvin Mims.

What would change the answer

Zay Flowers is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.