Bo Nix or Dalton Schultz: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Bo Nix at 16.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.

The player markets price Dalton Schultz at 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 218 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 143 times and thrown 5.4 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 15 of 143 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 2 against JAX he completed 22 of 31 passes for 288 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 9 yards.

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.

Through Week 4, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 63 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CIN he caught 12 of 14 targets for 140 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against IND he caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

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.

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 9.5 yards a catch.

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

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Dalton Schultz 10.5, 8.1 a game between them.

Bo Nix finished QB7 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Bo Nix is a quarterback 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

Bo Nix is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Dalton Schultz.

What would change the answer

6.9 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.