Should I start Bo Nix or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 12:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Bo Nix: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Tyler Higbee's 71 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Tyler Higbee for Bo Nix?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 162 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 10 games), Tyler Higbee 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Bo Nix

QB10 · DEN · bye 10

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Overall rank: 78

Tyler Higbee

TE9 · LAR · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 9.0 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bo Nix is 17.6 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 202 times and thrown 4.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 202 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

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.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

Through Week 6, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 11.5 a game between them.

Bo Nix finished QB7 and Tyler Higbee TE40, which are two different ladders.

Bo Nix is a quarterback and Tyler Higbee 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 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Bo Nix has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Tyler Higbee for Bo Nix?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Bo Nix projects 162 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 10 games), Tyler Higbee 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Bo Nix for Tyler Higbee?
No. Keep Bo Nix: he projects 162 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 10 games), Tyler Higbee 79 (7.9 a game over 10 games).