Brock Bowers or Tank Bigsby: who should I start?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 161st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 61.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tank Bigsby: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 162nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 180.

What the sportsbooks price

The books have Brock Bowers at 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 book. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The books have Tank Bigsby at 1.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 books. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Brock Bowers's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 1

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Brock Bowers this season.

Through Week 1, Tank Bigsby has been on the field for 11 percent of PHI snaps, taken 4 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 9 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

In Week 1 against WAS he carried 1 time for 3 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.

In 2025 Tank Bigsby played 17 games and scored 53.8 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB69.

He carried 63 times for 356 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 3.7 carries a game at 5.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tank Bigsby was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Tank Bigsby 3.2, 11.5 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Tank Bigsby RB69, which are two different ladders.

Brock Bowers is a tight end and Tank Bigsby a running back, 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 Tank Bigsby in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Brock Bowers is listed as doubtful on the injury report.