Should I start Dallas Goedert or Chig Okonkwo in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Week 6 verdict
Start Dallas Goedert over Chig Okonkwo
- Market projects
- 8.6
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs TE
- 16.6
- 9th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 59%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 17%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.2
- recent weeks avg
- SF D vs TE
- 8.2
- 4th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 61%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Chig Okonkwo, 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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TE15 · PHI · bye 10
2025 vs rec yds line 5-10
- Market-based projection
- 8.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE38 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs rec yds line 7-5
- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 201
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size317 draftable players
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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dallas Goedert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chig Okonkwo: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 201st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Dallas Goedert's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Chig Okonkwo is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Chig Okonkwo's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Dallas Goedert has been on the field for 59 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against WAS he caught 4 of 5 targets for 77 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 2 against TEN he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against JAX he caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 61 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.
In Week 1 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against IND he caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Dallas Goedert played 15 games and scored 185.1 PPR points, 12.3 a game, finishing TE7.
He caught 60 of 82 targets for 591 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.
He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Chig Okonkwo was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 5.0 a game between them.
Dallas Goedert finished TE7 that year and Chig Okonkwo TE21.
Dallas Goedert had 3 more targets than Chig Okonkwo, 82 to 79.
Dallas Goedert had 31 more receiving yards than Chig Okonkwo, 591 to 560.
This season Chig Okonkwo holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 59 percent.
This season Dallas Goedert holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 15 percent.
Byes and availability
Dallas Goedert is off in Week 10 and Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Chig Okonkwo is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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