Darnell Washington or Brock Bowers: who should I start?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 61.

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Darnell Washington at 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 171st highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

The books have Brock Bowers at 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 book. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 64 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 10 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Brock Bowers this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 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.

Darnell Washington was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 10.1 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 that year and Brock Bowers TE11.

Brock Bowers had 43 more targets than Darnell Washington, 86 to 43.

Brock Bowers had 316 more receiving yards than Darnell Washington, 680 to 364.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and Brock Bowers in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Brock Bowers is listed as doubtful on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Brock Bowers is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.