Should I start Bryce Young or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 17.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 18th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 10.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bryce Young has been on the field for 97 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 217 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 35 of 217 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 3 against CLE he completed 26 of 47 passes for 291 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he completed 20 of 39 passes for 281 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

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 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.

He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 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.

Bryce Young was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 7.2 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and Tyler Higbee TE40, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback and Tyler Higbee a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

6.7 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.