Should I start Colby Parkinson or Cade Otton in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cade Otton, and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 91st highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Cade Otton is 1.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Cade Otton's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Cade Otton has been on the field for 95 percent of TB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Cade Otton played 16 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing TE22.

He caught 59 of 81 targets for 572 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cade Otton was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Cade Otton 7.6, 1.0 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 that year and Cade Otton TE22.

Cade Otton had 25 more targets than Colby Parkinson, 81 to 56.

Cade Otton had 164 more receiving yards than Colby Parkinson, 572 to 408.

This season Cade Otton holds the bigger snap share, 95 percent against 62 percent.

This season Cade Otton holds the bigger target share, 16 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

Cade Otton is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

Cade Otton has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.