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Should I start Noah Fant or Quinshon Judkins in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 1:26 PM ET.

Start Noah Fant: 60 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Quinshon Judkins's 56 percent of the snaps and 64 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE12 · NO · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection
3.6 pts a game

RB30 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
10.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
89

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 76th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Quinshon Judkins is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Noah Fant has been on the field for 52 percent of NO snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 60 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 6.3 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 and Quinshon Judkins RB26, which are two different ladders.

Noah Fant is a tight end and Quinshon Judkins a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Quinshon Judkins is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

Quinshon Judkins is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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