Colston Loveland or Dalton Schultz: who to draft first

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Colston Loveland at 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 17 books. That is the 61st highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

The player markets price Dalton Schultz at 10.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 18 books. That is the 79th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 81.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 87 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 15.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against CAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 1, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 66 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 3.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against BUF he caught 4 of 8 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.

He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 9.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dalton Schultz was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dalton Schultz scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 0.1 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 that year and Dalton Schultz TE10.

Dalton Schultz had 24 more targets than Colston Loveland, 106 to 82.

Dalton Schultz had 64 more receiving yards than Colston Loveland, 777 to 713.

This season Colston Loveland holds the bigger snap share, 87 percent against 66 percent.

This season Dalton Schultz holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10 and Dalton Schultz in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.6 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 books when it does.