Dalton Schultz or Cade Otton: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Dalton Schultz over Cade Otton
- Market projects
- 8.0
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 61%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 93%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Cade Otton, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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TE12 · HOU · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 7.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · TB · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Cade Otton at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Cade Otton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against IND he caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Cade Otton has been on the field for 93 percent of TB snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 27 targets have averaged 6.9 air yards.
In Week 3 against MIN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 56 yards and did not score.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.
He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 72 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.
Dalton Schultz was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dalton Schultz scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Cade Otton 7.6, 2.8 a game between them.
Dalton Schultz finished TE10 that year and Cade Otton TE22.
Dalton Schultz had 25 more targets than Cade Otton, 106 to 81.
Dalton Schultz had 205 more receiving yards than Cade Otton, 777 to 572.
This season Cade Otton holds the bigger snap share, 93 percent against 61 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 18 percent each.
What would change the answer
Cade Otton has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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