Colston Loveland or Jaylen Waddle: 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 Jaylen Waddle at 12.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 17 books. That is the 63rd 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 Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 74.

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, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 75 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 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 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Colston Loveland 10.3, 1.8 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Jaylen Waddle WR24, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland is a tight end and Jaylen Waddle a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

0.3 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.