Should I start Noah Fant or Zay Flowers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 100th 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 13 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 194 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Zay Flowers is 3.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

Zay Flowers'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, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 61 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 8.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 118 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 1 time for 13 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 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 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zay Flowers was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 9.3 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 and Zay Flowers WR7, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

What would change the answer

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