Should I start Audric Estime or Dalton Schultz in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Audric Estime, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dalton Schultz, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Audric Estime is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Dalton Schultz is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Audric Estime's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Audric Estime has been on the field for 26 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 2 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against BAL he carried 9 times for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CLE he carried 15 times for 72 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 56 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 12 of its 51 two minute targets.

His 47 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 5 of 6 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAC he caught 2 of 4 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Audric Estime played 7 games and scored 48.1 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing RB71.

He carried 46 times for 198 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 12 of 13 targets for 103 more yards.

That came to 6.6 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.

He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dalton Schultz was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dalton Schultz scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Audric Estime 6.9, 3.6 a game between them.

Audric Estime finished RB71 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Audric Estime is a running back and Dalton Schultz a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.