Should I start Noah Fant or Tony Pollard in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 10:31 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Tony Pollard: 57 percent of the snaps and 74 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Noah Fant's 60 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets. 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.

Should I drop Noah Fant for Tony Pollard?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tony Pollard projects 99 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.9 a game over 10 games), Noah Fant 35 (3.5 a game over 10 games).

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

Noah Fant

TE10 · NO · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection: 3.5 pts a game

Tony Pollard

RB29 · TEN · bye 9

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Market-based projection: 11.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 84

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The gap

Board size299 draftable players

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 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 181 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tony Pollard is 3.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Tony Pollard'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, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 55 percent of TEN snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 1.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 16 times for 48 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tony Pollard was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 5.9 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 and Tony Pollard RB23, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tony Pollard is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Noah Fant for Tony Pollard?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tony Pollard projects 99 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.9 a game over 10 games), Noah Fant 35 (3.5 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Tony Pollard for Noah Fant?
No. Keep Tony Pollard: he projects 99 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.9 a game over 10 games), Noah Fant 35 (3.5 a game over 10 games).