Noah Fant or Zachariah Branch: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 139th highest figure of the 166 players with a market-based projection.

Zachariah Branch's market-based projection is 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 141st highest figure of the 166 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Noah Fant: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Zachariah Branch: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Noah Fant has been on the field for 50 percent of NO snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against BAL he was not given the ball.

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.

Through Week 5, Zachariah Branch has been on the field for 22 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 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.

Zachariah Branch is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

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

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.