Start Brian Thomas Jr. or Darnell Mooney? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Brian Thomas Jr. over Darnell Mooney
- Market projects
- 4.3
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 4.0
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 59%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 10%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Brian Thomas Jr. over Darnell Mooney in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Brian Thomas Jr. at 4.3 points and Darnell Mooney at 4.0, a gap of 0.3. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for Darnell Mooney this week yet, so his 4.0 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (3.6, 4.4 and 4.1); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 4.3 fantasy points for Brian Thomas Jr., with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market-based projection for Brian Thomas Jr. is 18 receiving yards and 1-2 receptions, with a 15% chance to score a touchdown (12, 12 and 13 market sources).
No Week 6 player market is posted for Darnell Mooney yet. His market-based projections were 3.6, 4.4 and 4.1 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 4.0, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.
The market gives Darnell Mooney a 13% chance to score a touchdown (13 market sources).
That puts Brian Thomas Jr. 0.3 points ahead of Darnell Mooney on these projections.
Injury status
Brian Thomas Jr. is not on the injury report.
Darnell Mooney is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Darnell Mooney played 59 percent of NYG snaps, drew 10 percent of the targets, earned 15 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
Darnell Mooney, Week 2 against LAR: 42 of 58 snaps, 3 targets and 2 catches for 48 yards.
Darnell Mooney, Week 3 against TEN: 28 of 64 snaps, 1 carry for 9 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 20 yards.
Darnell Mooney, Week 4 against ARI: 37 of 67 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Darnell Mooney, Week 5 against WAS: 58 of 89 snaps, 7 targets and 2 catches for 14 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Darnell Mooney played 15 games for ATL and scored 82.3 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR79.
He caught 32 of 72 targets for 443 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets and 370 air yards.
He was on the field for 82 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR38 · JAX · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Overall rank
- 103
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 15
Ranked behind
WR · NYG · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 6, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the boardone of them is not on the board
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersnot tiered
- Board size189 draftable players
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