Start Troy Franklin or Bo Melton? Week 7

Our Week 7 call

Start Troy Franklin over Bo Melton in Week 7.

Market-based projections have Troy Franklin at 3.0 points and Bo Melton at 0.9, a gap of 2.1. No player market is posted for Troy Franklin this week yet, so his 3.0 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 5 (1.7 and 4.2); the call is rebuilt when his market posts. No player market is posted for Bo Melton this week yet, so his 0.9 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 4 and 5 (0.9 and 0.9); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 7 player market is posted for Troy Franklin yet. His market-based projections were 1.7 and 4.2 points in Weeks 4 and 5, an average of 3.0, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

No Week 7 player market is posted for Bo Melton yet. His market-based projections were 0.9 and 0.9 points in Weeks 4 and 5, an average of 0.9, which stands in until his Week 7 market posts.

That puts Troy Franklin 2.1 points ahead of Bo Melton on these projections.

Injury status

Troy Franklin is not on the injury report.

Bo Melton is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 7

Through Week 6, Troy Franklin played 39 percent of DEN snaps, drew 4 percent of the targets, earned 9 percent of the air yards and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

Troy Franklin, Week 3 against LAR: 12 of 67 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 21 yards.

Troy Franklin, Week 4 against SF: 32 of 65 snaps, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Troy Franklin, Week 5 against LAC: 39 of 62 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 16 yards.

Troy Franklin, Week 6 against SEA: 31 of 60 snaps, 1 target and 1 catch for 2 yards.

Through Week 5, Bo Melton played 25 percent of GB snaps, drew 4 percent of the targets, earned 5 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

Bo Melton, Week 2 against NYJ: 9 of 59 snaps, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Bo Melton, Week 3 against ATL: 21 of 66 snaps, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Bo Melton, Week 4 against TB: 11 of 60 snaps, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Bo Melton, Week 5 against CHI: 30 of 61 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 20 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Troy Franklin played 17 games for DEN 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 and 427 air yards.

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

In 2025, Bo Melton played 16 games for GB and scored 24.2 PPR points, 1.5 a game, finishing WR146.

He caught 4 of 13 targets for 107 yards and 1 touchdown, with 0 red zone targets and 100 air yards.

He was on the field for 9 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 7 calls

• Start Troy Franklin over Calvin Ridley.
• Start Elic Ayomanor over Troy Franklin.
• Start Germie Bernard over Troy Franklin.
• Start Calvin Ridley over Bo Melton.
• Start Jacob Cowing over Bo Melton.
• Start Kyle Williams over Bo Melton.