Should I start Tyrone Tracy or Troy Franklin in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 10:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Troy Franklin: 55 percent of the snaps and 4 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tyrone Tracy's 25 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the carries. 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.

Should I drop Tyrone Tracy for Troy Franklin?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Troy Franklin projects 42 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (4.2 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games).

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

Tyrone Tracy

RB48 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Overall rank: 134

Troy Franklin

WR46 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Market-based projection: 4.0 pts a game

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The gap

Board size304 draftable players

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 Tyrone Tracy, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyrone Tracy is 1.2 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 8 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyrone Tracy has been on the field for 15 percent of NYG snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 27 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 6, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 12.1 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyrone Tracy played 15 games and scored 160.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing RB28.

He carried 176 times for 740 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 48 targets for 288 more yards.

That came to 11.7 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 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 Tyrone Tracy scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Troy Franklin 10.4, 0.3 a game between them.

Tyrone Tracy finished RB28 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

Tyrone Tracy 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

Tyrone Tracy is off in Week 8 and Troy Franklin in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Tyrone Tracy for Troy Franklin?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Troy Franklin projects 42 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (4.2 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Troy Franklin for Tyrone Tracy?
No. Keep Troy Franklin: he projects 42 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (4.2 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games).