Should I start Tyler Shough or Cade Otton in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Tyler Shough's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

Cade Otton's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Shough, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cade Otton, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 255 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 255 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 6 against NYG he completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 33 yards.

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 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 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 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Cade Otton 7.6, 7.3 a game between them.

Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Cade Otton TE22, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Shough is a quarterback and Cade Otton a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8 and Cade Otton in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.