Dak Prescott or Carnell Tate: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dak Prescott: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Carnell Tate: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 61st overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for Dak Prescott, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The player markets price Carnell Tate at 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 82nd highest figure of the 200 players the market prices.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Dak Prescott has been on the field for 100 percent of DAL snaps, dropped back 167 times and thrown 7.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 26 of 167 dropbacks and scrambled 11 times.

In Week 2 against WAS he completed 26 of 31 passes for 279 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 26 yards.

In Week 3 against BAL he completed 25 of 40 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 19 yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he completed 32 of 45 passes for 335 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 7 yards.

Through Week 4, Carnell Tate has been on the field for 84 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 32 targets have averaged 11.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against PHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 6 of 9 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 9 of 12 targets for 145 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dak Prescott played 17 games and scored 323.8 PPR points, 19.0 a game, finishing QB6.

He threw for 4552 yards on 600 attempts with 30 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 35.3 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Carnell Tate is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Side by side

Dak Prescott is a quarterback and Carnell Tate a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dak Prescott is off in Week 14 and Carnell Tate in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Carnell Tate is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Dak Prescott has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.