Should I start Colston Loveland or Rashod Bateman in Week 8?

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 10.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 51st highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

Rashod Bateman's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 75th highest figure of the 204 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashod Bateman, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 2 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 6.9 air yards.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Rashod Bateman has been on the field for 70 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 2 of 4 targets for 33 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 Rashod Bateman played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing WR102.

He caught 19 of 38 targets for 224 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Colston Loveland was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colston Loveland scored 10.3 PPR points a game and Rashod Bateman 4.3, 6.1 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Rashod Bateman WR102, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland is a tight end and Rashod Bateman a wide receiver, 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 Rashod Bateman in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

4.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.