Should I start Noah Fant or Trey McBride in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 60th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Trey McBride is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Trey McBride'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 50 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, Trey McBride has been on the field for 89 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 4 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 65 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 7 of 12 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 9 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 7 of 9 targets for 53 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 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trey McBride was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Trey McBride scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 13.6 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 that year and Trey McBride TE1.

Trey McBride had 128 more targets than Noah Fant, 169 to 41.

Trey McBride had 951 more receiving yards than Noah Fant, 1239 to 288.

This season Trey McBride holds the bigger snap share, 89 percent against 50 percent.

This season Trey McBride holds the bigger target share, 29 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Trey McBride is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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