Parker Washington or Tony Pollard: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Parker Washington's market-based projection is 13.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Tony Pollard's market-based projection is 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Parker Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 18.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tony Pollard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Parker Washington has been on the field for 77 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 12.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 6 of 9 targets for 124 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 5, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 52 percent of TEN snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 42 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 17 times for 74 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Parker Washington played 16 games and scored 184.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR27.

He caught 58 of 95 targets for 847 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 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 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Parker Washington scored 11.5 PPR points a game and Tony Pollard 10.9, 0.6 a game between them.

Parker Washington finished WR27 and Tony Pollard RB23, which are two different ladders.

Parker Washington is a wide receiver 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

Parker Washington is off in Week 7 and Tony Pollard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

3.0 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.