Should I start Brock Bowers or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Brock Bowers's market-based projection is 16.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 32nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brock Bowers was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 7.6 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 that year and Tyler Higbee TE40.

Brock Bowers had 50 more targets than Tyler Higbee, 86 to 36.

Brock Bowers had 399 more receiving yards than Tyler Higbee, 680 to 281.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 57 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 28 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.4 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.