Cade Otton or Bo Nix: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cade Otton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Cade Otton's market-based projection is 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 104th highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Bo Nix, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Cade Otton has been on the field for 93 percent of TB snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against MIN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 172 times and thrown 5.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 172 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against LAR he completed 17 of 34 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 7 yards.

In Week 4 against SF he completed 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cade Otton played 16 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing TE22.

He caught 59 of 81 targets for 572 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Cade Otton 7.6, 10.9 a game between them.

Cade Otton finished TE22 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Cade Otton is a tight end and Bo Nix a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bo Nix is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Cade Otton.

What would change the answer

Bo Nix has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.