Should I start Noah Fant or Tetairoa McMillan in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tetairoa McMillan, and the board ranks him 101st 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 13 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tetairoa McMillan is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 6

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 6, Tetairoa McMillan has been on the field for 85 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 3 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 11.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 2 of 5 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 14 of 16 targets for 192 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 86 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 Tetairoa McMillan played 17 games and scored 211.4 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing WR16.

He caught 70 of 122 targets for 1014 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 15 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tetairoa McMillan was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tetairoa McMillan scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 7.4 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 and Tetairoa McMillan WR16, which are two different ladders.

Noah Fant is a tight end and Tetairoa McMillan a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tetairoa McMillan is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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