Should I start Brock Bowers or Kenyon Sadiq in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 4:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Brock Bowers over Kenyon Sadiq

- Market projects
- 17.5
- recent weeks avg
- LAR D vs TE
- 8.3
- 2nd fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 83%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 28%
- Through Week 6

- Market projects
- 8.1
- recent weeks avg
- MIA D vs TE
- 19.8
- 4th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 40%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 14%
- Through Week 6
Start Brock Bowers: 84 percent of the snaps and 24 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kenyon Sadiq's 35 percent of the snaps and 14 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.
TE14 · LV · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market-based projection
- 19.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 97
TE25 · NYJ · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 5.7 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 147
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The gap
- Board size299 draftable players
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 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenyon Sadiq, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.
The market-based projection for Kenyon Sadiq is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 6
Through Week 6, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 83 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 6, Kenyon Sadiq has been on the field for 40 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 24 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 4 against CHI he caught 0 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CLE he caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
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.
Kenyon Sadiq is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 40 percent.
This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 14 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Both players in full
Week 7 on the board
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- Is Kenyon Sadiq playing Week 7?
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