Start Troy Franklin or Zachariah Branch? Week 6
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Troy Franklin over Zachariah Branch
- Market projects
- 4.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 37%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 3.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 22%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 6 call
Start Troy Franklin over Zachariah Branch in Week 6.
Market-based projections have Troy Franklin at 4.0 points and Zachariah Branch at 3.2, a gap of 0.8. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip.
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What the market projects
Player markets imply 4.0 fantasy points for Troy Franklin, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Troy Franklin at 16.5 receiving yards and 1.5 receptions, with a 12% chance to score a touchdown (13, 13 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 3.2 fantasy points for Zachariah Branch, with 100 percent of the markets a WR needs posted.
The market has Zachariah Branch at 10.5 receiving yards, with a 9% chance to score a touchdown (8 and 10 market sources).
That puts Troy Franklin 0.8 points ahead of Zachariah Branch on the market projections.
Injury status
Troy Franklin is not on the injury report.
Zachariah Branch is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 6
Through Week 5, Troy Franklin played 37 percent of DEN snaps, drew 4 percent of the targets, earned 10 percent of the air yards and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
Troy Franklin, Week 2 against JAX: 13 of 62 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 27 yards.
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.
Through Week 5, Zachariah Branch played 22 percent of ATL snaps, drew 6 percent of the targets, earned 0 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
Zachariah Branch, Week 2 against CAR: 14 of 69 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 14 yards.
Zachariah Branch, Week 3 against GB: 13 of 71 snaps, 2 targets and 1 catch for 7 yards.
Zachariah Branch, Week 4 against NO: 13 of 57 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 10 yards.
Zachariah Branch, Week 5 against BAL: 12 of 64 snaps, 2 targets and 2 catches for 15 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.
Their other Week 6 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
WR29 · DEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 74
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
Ranked behind
WR33 · ATL · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 83
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
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 board9
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 13 and tier 14
- Board size176 draftable players
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