Should I start Brock Bowers or Jalen Hurts in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 9:21 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jalen Hurts: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Brock Bowers's 78 percent of the snaps and 30 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE11 · LV · bye 13
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- Market-based projection
- 19.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 85
QB12 · PHI · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 12.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 86
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Hurts, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.
No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 6, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 28 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 19 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 43 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against BUF he caught 4 of 9 targets for 70 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
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 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jalen Hurts was available for 4 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Brock Bowers 14.7, 4.4 a game between them.
Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Jalen Hurts QB8, which are two different ladders.
Brock Bowers is a tight end and Jalen Hurts a quarterback, 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 and Jalen Hurts in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jalen Hurts is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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