Should I start Chig Okonkwo or Brock Bowers in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 31st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 59th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

The market-based projections

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 9.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 29th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 68 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 7.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 2 of 4 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he caught 6 of 7 targets for 56 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 85 percent of LV snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 26 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 2 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 69 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 7 of 10 targets for 92 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against SF he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Chig Okonkwo was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 7.4 a game between them.

Chig Okonkwo finished TE21 that year and Brock Bowers TE11.

Brock Bowers had 7 more targets than Chig Okonkwo, 86 to 79.

Brock Bowers had 120 more receiving yards than Chig Okonkwo, 680 to 560.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 85 percent against 68 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 27 percent against 17 percent.

Byes and availability

Chig Okonkwo is off in Week 7 and Brock Bowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Chig Okonkwo is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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