Blake Grupe or Jake Bates: who to draft first
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 10:06 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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K17 · NYJ · bye 13
- Books price
- 6.4 pts a game Wk 2 price
- Overall rank
- 184
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
K18 · DET · bye 6
- Overall rank
- 213
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Grupe: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 184th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jake Bates: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 213th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 167.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Blake Grupe, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jake Bates, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Blake Grupe played 16 games and scored 121.0 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing K21.
In 2025 Jake Bates played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing K9.
Jake Bates was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jake Bates scored 8.4 PPR points a game and Blake Grupe 7.6, 0.8 a game between them.
Blake Grupe finished K21 that year and Jake Bates K9.
Byes and availability
Blake Grupe is off in Week 13 and Jake Bates in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
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