Cade Otton or Mike Gesicki: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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TE · TB · bye unlisted
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TE · CIN · bye unlisted
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
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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
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.
Our board does not carry Mike Gesicki 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
No season market is posted for Cade Otton, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Mike Gesicki, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.
In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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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.
In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.
He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cade Otton was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Cade Otton scored 7.6 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 2.2 a game between them.
Cade Otton finished TE22 that year and Mike Gesicki TE41.
Cade Otton had 39 more targets than Mike Gesicki, 81 to 42.
Cade Otton had 265 more receiving yards than Mike Gesicki, 572 to 307.
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 9 percent.
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