Should I start Matthew Golden or Nico Collins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Golden, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Nico Collins, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Matthew Golden's market-based projection is 15.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 181 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Nico Collins is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 83 percent of GB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 22 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 57 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 3 of 7 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CHI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 123 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 6 of 13 targets for 104 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 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.

Nico Collins was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Nico Collins scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 10.1 a game between them.

Matthew Golden finished WR89 that year and Nico Collins WR8.

Nico Collins had 76 more targets than Matthew Golden, 120 to 44.

Nico Collins had 756 more receiving yards than Matthew Golden, 1117 to 361.

This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 71 percent.

This season Matthew Golden holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 23 percent.

Byes and availability

Matthew Golden is off in Week 11 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.