Should I start Daniel Bellinger or Dallas Goedert in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Bellinger, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Daniel Bellinger's market-based projection is 3.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 156th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dallas Goedert is 2.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dallas Goedert's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Daniel Bellinger has been on the field for 44 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 3.7 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Dallas Goedert has been on the field for 67 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DAL he caught 5 of 7 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Daniel Bellinger played 16 games and scored 59.6 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE46.

He caught 19 of 26 targets for 286 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 48 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dallas Goedert played 15 games and scored 185.1 PPR points, 12.3 a game, finishing TE7.

He caught 60 of 82 targets for 591 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Daniel Bellinger was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Daniel Bellinger 3.7, 8.6 a game between them.

Daniel Bellinger finished TE46 that year and Dallas Goedert TE7.

Dallas Goedert had 56 more targets than Daniel Bellinger, 82 to 26.

Dallas Goedert had 305 more receiving yards than Daniel Bellinger, 591 to 286.

This season Dallas Goedert holds the bigger snap share, 67 percent against 44 percent.

This season Dallas Goedert holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Dallas Goedert is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Daniel Bellinger.

What would change the answer

Dallas Goedert has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.