Should I start Cade Otton or Joe Fagnano in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Cade Otton: he has been on the field this season, 94 percent of the snaps, and Joe Fagnano has no snap on record yet. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE6 · TB · bye 10
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- Market-based projection
- 8.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 40
QB11 · BAL · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 41
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Cade Otton, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Joe Fagnano, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Cade Otton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market-based projection for Joe Fagnano is 10.9 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 9 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season so far
Through Week 7, Cade Otton has been on the field for 94 percent of TB snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
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.
In Week 7 against CAR he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Joe Fagnano has dropped back 25 times and thrown 4.3 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 9 of 25 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.
In Week 8 against BUF he completed 10 of 21 passes for 91 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 4 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
Joe Fagnano is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Cade Otton is a tight end and Joe Fagnano a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Cade Otton is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Joe Fagnano.
Joe Fagnano is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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