Should I start Darnell Washington or Brock Bowers in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 28th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.8 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 so far

Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 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 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.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 85 percent against 65 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 27 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

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

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.