Brock Bowers or Braelon Allen: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Bowers at 16.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

The player markets price Braelon Allen at 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 33.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Braelon Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 24 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 10.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 4, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 48 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 33 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 29 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against GB he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against DET he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CHI he carried 14 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4.5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brock Bowers was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Braelon Allen 3.8, 10.9 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Braelon Allen RB100, which are two different ladders.

Brock Bowers is a tight end and Braelon Allen a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Braelon Allen.

What would change the answer

1.9 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.