Should I start Colston Loveland or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 68th highest figure of the 198 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 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 9 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 6, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Colston Loveland was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Colston Loveland scored 10.3 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 3.2 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 that year and Tyler Higbee TE40.

Colston Loveland had 46 more targets than Tyler Higbee, 82 to 36.

Colston Loveland had 432 more receiving yards than Tyler Higbee, 713 to 281.

This season Colston Loveland holds the bigger snap share, 86 percent against 57 percent.

This season Colston Loveland holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Colston Loveland is off in Week 10 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

2.1 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.