Should I start Tyquan Thornton or Zavion Thomas in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 6:11 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tyquan Thornton: 57 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Zavion Thomas's 10 percent of the snaps and 2 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
WR · KC · bye 5
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- Overall rank
- 274
WR · CHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 275
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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 Tyquan Thornton, and the board ranks him 274th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Zavion Thomas, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Tyquan Thornton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Zavion Thomas, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Tyquan Thornton has been on the field for 60 percent of KC snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 18.7 air yards.
In Week 2 against IND he caught 4 of 4 targets for 86 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LV he caught 5 of 8 targets for 111 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Through Week 6, Zavion Thomas has been on the field for 8 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against NYJ he was not given the ball.
In Week 5 against GB he carried 1 time for 11 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyquan Thornton played 14 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR81.
He caught 19 of 37 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 51 percent catch rate and 23.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Zavion Thomas is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Tyquan Thornton holds the bigger snap share, 60 percent against 8 percent.
This season Tyquan Thornton holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 3 percent.
Byes and availability
Tyquan Thornton is off in Week 5 and Zavion Thomas in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyquan Thornton is listed as ir on the injury report.
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