Should I start Terry McLaurin or Roman Wilson in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 7:41 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Terry McLaurin: 68 percent of the snaps and 25 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Roman Wilson's 34 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Terry McLaurin

WR36 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 1-3

Market-based projection: 10.3 pts a game

Roman Wilson

WR38 · PIT · bye 9

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Market-based projection: 9.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank: 105

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Terry McLaurin, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Roman Wilson, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Terry McLaurin's market-based projection is 10.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 38th highest figure of the 79 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Roman Wilson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Terry McLaurin has been on the field for 73 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 12.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against DAL he caught 2 of 9 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against SEA he caught 6 of 9 targets for 77 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 4 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Roman Wilson has been on the field for 48 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 15.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 60 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 6 targets for 74 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Terry McLaurin played 10 games and scored 114.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing WR56.

He caught 38 of 60 targets for 582 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Roman Wilson played 13 games and scored 38.6 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR122.

He caught 12 of 21 targets for 166 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 13.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Roman Wilson was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Terry McLaurin scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Roman Wilson 3.0, 8.5 a game between them.

Terry McLaurin finished WR56 that year and Roman Wilson WR122.

Terry McLaurin had 39 more targets than Roman Wilson, 60 to 21.

Terry McLaurin had 416 more receiving yards than Roman Wilson, 582 to 166.

This season Terry McLaurin holds the bigger snap share, 73 percent against 48 percent.

This season Terry McLaurin holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Terry McLaurin is off in Week 7 and Roman Wilson in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Roman Wilson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Roman Wilson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.