Head to head · July 2026 draft-day read
Terry McLaurin or Ladd McConkey?
Terry McLaurin and Ladd McConkey are a near-tie on 2025 production (9.5 vs 9.2 half-PPR PPG). At matching July 2026 ADP, the pick came down to your roster build, not a market tiebreak.
This week's projections are in the Week 5 start/sit card below. The July 2026 draft-day read that follows is opinion, framed from the cited 2025 data.
This week's start/sit · Half-PPR
Week 5: start Terry McLaurin or Ladd McConkey?
Ladd McConkey is the safer start: Terry McLaurin missed Week 4 (hamstring) and his Week 5 status isn't known yet.
If Terry McLaurin is cleared, his projection is 10.3 vs Ladd McConkey's 7.9.
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WR · WAS · Status unknown
Terry McLaurin
10.3 pts projected if he plays · range 3.8–19.1
Missed Week 4 (hamstring) — no Week 5 game status yet (Week 5 practice report: did not practice)
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WR · LAC
Ladd McConkey
7.9 pts projected · range 1.4–16.7
2026 season · the games so far
2026 head-to-head so far
Through Week 4, Terry McLaurin has out-scored Ladd McConkey by 1.0 PPR points per game, 10.0 to 9.1 (Terry McLaurin 3 games, Ladd McConkey 4 games).
Through Week 4 · nflverse stats as of
Terry McLaurin · Week 5 injury report Injury report — hamstring, did not practice
| Terry McLaurin | Metric | Ladd McConkey |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Games | 4 |
| 10.0 | PPR points per game | 9.1 |
| 23% | Target share | 15% |
| 7.3 | Targets per game | 4.3 |
| 77% | Snap share | 54% |
| 10.0 | PPR points per game, last 3 games | 5.7 |
Purple marks the higher figure. Shares are team-relative, averaged per game; snap share counts only games with a published snap count. "Last 3 games" is each player's own last 3 games played. A dash means no 2026 figure. 2026 regular season via nflverse.
Game by game: Terry McLaurin · Ladd McConkey
Draft-day record · July 2026
The July 2026 draft-day read
This is the July 2026 pre-draft read, kept as published. Every ADP and market figure on this page comes from the Fantasy Football Calculator snapshot of Jul 15, 2026 and is not updated in-season — 2026 drafts are over and ADP has stopped moving. In-season tools
Metric by metric
The tale of the tape
| Terry McLaurin | Metric | Ladd McConkey |
|---|---|---|
| 35.6 (WR18) | Draft ADP (July 2026) | 37 (WR19) |
| 36 | Overall ADP rank (July 2026) | 37 |
| 9.5 | Fantasy points / game | 9.2 |
| 23.2% | Target share | — |
| 24.8% | Target share, last 3 games (2025) | — |
| 56 | Sleeper search rank (July 2026) | 41 |
Purple marks the better figure. A dash means the engine did not cite that metric for that player. 2025 regular season via nflverse · ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator, Jul 15, 2026 snapshot.
The consensus read
July 2026 drafts separated them by a hair — Terry McLaurin at ADP 35.6, Ladd McConkey at ADP 37. On 2025 production it is 9.5 vs 9.2 half-PPR points per game.
What had to be true
This call flipped on beliefs that were checkable at the time. Every belief was tied to a checkpoint: the exact data point that would confirm or deny it, with its value at the time of the July 2026 read.
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Checkpoint · Terry McLaurin
Target share, last 3 games vs season (2025)
24.8% last 3 vs 23.2% season (2025) · as of July 2026
Strong move if you believed
Terry McLaurin's late-2025 target share is the new baseline, not a blip
Poor move if instead
Terry McLaurin's late-2025 target uptick is small-sample noise that reverts
Sources: Fantasy Football Calculator · Sleeper · nflverse. Every figure here is a value the analysis engine cited from the underlying data. Stats are 2025 regular season via nflverse (CC-BY 4.0); ADP via Fantasy Football Calculator (Jul 15, 2026 snapshot, not updated in-season).
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