Darren Waller 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 Cade Otton over Darren Waller
- Market projects
- 7.6
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 93%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 6.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 46%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 13%
- Through Week 4
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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TE17 · CAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Market-based projection
- 6.9 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 Darren Waller: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 106th 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
Darren Waller's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 104th 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 so far
Through Week 4, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 19 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 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 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.
He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 45 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 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Darren Waller scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Cade Otton 7.6, 2.2 a game between them.
Darren Waller finished TE33 that year and Cade Otton TE22.
Cade Otton had 47 more targets than Darren Waller, 81 to 34.
Cade Otton had 289 more receiving yards than Darren Waller, 572 to 283.
This season Cade Otton holds the bigger snap share, 93 percent against 46 percent.
This season Cade Otton holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 13 percent.
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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