Quinshon Judkins or Troy Franklin: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Quinshon Judkins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Quinshon Judkins is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 145 players with a market-based projection.

Quinshon Judkins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 60 percent of CLE snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 18 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 17 times for 53 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 43 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 37 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 0.9 a game between them.

Quinshon Judkins finished RB26 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

Quinshon Judkins is a running back and Troy Franklin a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Quinshon Judkins is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Troy Franklin.

Quinshon Judkins is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Quinshon Judkins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.