Brock Bowers or Mike Evans: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Brock Bowers's market-based projection is 18.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Mike Evans's market-based projection is 17.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 16th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 16th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mike Evans: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Through Week 5, Mike Evans has been on the field for 58 percent of SF snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brock Bowers was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Mike Evans 10.6, 4.1 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Mike Evans WR76, which are two different ladders.

Brock Bowers is a tight end and Mike Evans a wide receiver, 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 Mike Evans in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.0 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.