Colby Parkinson or Davis Allen: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 12:26 AM ET
Week 5 verdict
Start Colby Parkinson over Davis Allen
Wrong: 1.3 to 4.4
- Market projected
- 5.3
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 61%
- Through Week 3
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 3
- Scored
- 1.3
- PPR pts
- Market projected
- 2.1
- pre-game
- Snap share
- 42%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 4
- Scored
- 4.4
- PPR pts
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market prices neither of them 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 · LAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
TE · LAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Our board does not carry Colby Parkinson 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 Davis Allen 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.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Colby Parkinson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Davis Allen, 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 so far
Through Week 3, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 61 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against SF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Davis Allen has been on the field for 42 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 4.6 air yards.
In Week 2 against NYG he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against DEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.
He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.
That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 9.5 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Davis Allen played 17 games and scored 62.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE44.
He caught 24 of 33 targets for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 1.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Davis Allen was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Davis Allen 3.7, 5.0 a game between them.
Colby Parkinson finished TE17 that year and Davis Allen TE44.
Colby Parkinson had 23 more targets than Davis Allen, 56 to 33.
Colby Parkinson had 200 more receiving yards than Davis Allen, 408 to 208.
This season Colby Parkinson holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 42 percent.
This season Colby Parkinson holds the bigger target share, 5 percent against 4 percent.
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