Tanner Hudson or Cade Stover: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Tanner Hudson at 1.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 203rd highest figure of the 214 players the market prices.

The player markets price Cade Stover at 0.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 213th highest figure of the 214 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tanner Hudson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 228th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cade Stover: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 237th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tanner Hudson has been on the field for 25 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 3.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against TB he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Cade Stover has been on the field for 26 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 0.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CIN he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 20 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner Hudson played 15 games and scored 47.8 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing TE55.

He caught 19 of 24 targets for 168 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 79 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 16 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Cade Stover played 9 games and scored 19.9 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing TE77.

He caught 12 of 16 targets for 76 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 1.8 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 6.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 43 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tanner Hudson was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tanner Hudson scored 3.2 PPR points a game and Cade Stover 2.2, 1.0 a game between them.

Tanner Hudson finished TE55 that year and Cade Stover TE77.

Tanner Hudson had 8 more targets than Cade Stover, 24 to 16.

Tanner Hudson had 92 more receiving yards than Cade Stover, 168 to 76.

This season Cade Stover holds the bigger snap share, 26 percent against 25 percent.

This season Tanner Hudson holds the bigger target share, 3 percent against 1 percent.

What would change the answer

0.7 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.