Should I start Brevyn Spann-Ford or Dawson Knox in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Brevyn Spann-Ford's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 136th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Dawson Knox's market-based projection is 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 154th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brevyn Spann-Ford, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dawson Knox, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 7, Brevyn Spann-Ford has been on the field for 39 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Dawson Knox has been on the field for 69 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 1 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brevyn Spann-Ford played 17 games and scored 24.0 PPR points, 1.4 a game, finishing TE73.

He caught 9 of 13 targets for 90 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dawson Knox played 17 games and scored 103.7 PPR points, 6.1 a game, finishing TE28.

He caught 36 of 49 targets for 417 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Dawson Knox scored 6.1 PPR points a game and Brevyn Spann-Ford 1.4, 4.7 a game between them.

Brevyn Spann-Ford finished TE73 that year and Dawson Knox TE28.

Dawson Knox had 36 more targets than Brevyn Spann-Ford, 49 to 13.

Dawson Knox had 327 more receiving yards than Brevyn Spann-Ford, 417 to 90.

This season Dawson Knox holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 39 percent.

This season Dawson Knox holds the bigger target share, 6 percent against 5 percent.

What would change the answer

1.2 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.