Colston Loveland or MarShawn Lloyd: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 4:16 AM ET
Colston Loveland is the start on the books' latest price, 8.0 points to MarShawn Lloyd's 6.7, with MarShawn Lloyd on the price the books posted for his Week 3 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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TE18 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs rec yds line 10-6
- Books price
- 8.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB34 · GB · bye 11
- Books price
- 6.7 pts a game Wk 3 price
- Overall rank
- 126
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Colston Loveland: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 81.
Drafters have formed no consensus on MarShawn Lloyd: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 129.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Colston Loveland at 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 121st highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for MarShawn Lloyd, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 87 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.
In Week 1 against CAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against MIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
Through Week 2, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 36 percent of GB snaps, taken 49 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 4.7 air yards.
In Week 1 against MIN he carried 13 times for 37 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 6 times for 20 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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.
The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.
Side by side
Colston Loveland is a tight end and MarShawn Lloyd a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Colston Loveland is off in Week 10 and MarShawn Lloyd in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
MarShawn Lloyd has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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