Should I start Troy Franklin or Nico Collins in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 66th 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

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 69th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Nico Collins is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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 so far

Through Week 8, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 44 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 15.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Nico Collins has been on the field for 71 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.

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.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 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.

Troy Franklin was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Nico Collins scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 4.7 a game between them.

Troy Franklin finished WR31 that year and Nico Collins WR8.

Nico Collins had 16 more targets than Troy Franklin, 120 to 104.

Nico Collins had 408 more receiving yards than Troy Franklin, 1117 to 709.

This season Nico Collins holds the bigger snap share, 71 percent against 44 percent.

This season Nico Collins holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Troy Franklin 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.