Should I start Mike Gesicki or Zach Charbonnet in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 121st highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 5.9 a game between them.

Mike Gesicki finished TE41 and Zach Charbonnet RB24, which are two different ladders.

Mike Gesicki is a tight end and Zach Charbonnet a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Mike Gesicki is off in Week 6 and Zach Charbonnet in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as pup on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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