Should I start Noah Fant or Brock Bowers in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Fant, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 67th highest figure of the 181 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Brock Bowers is 3.5 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 through Week 6

Through Week 6, Noah Fant has been on the field for 52 percent of NO snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 4.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYG he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 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.

Noah Fant was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 9.7 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 that year and Brock Bowers TE11.

Brock Bowers had 45 more targets than Noah Fant, 86 to 41.

Brock Bowers had 392 more receiving yards than Noah Fant, 680 to 288.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 52 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

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.