Should I start Dawson Knox or Dallas Goedert in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dawson Knox, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 184th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Dawson Knox's market-based projection is 3.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 120th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dallas Goedert is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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 so far

Through Week 6, Dawson Knox has been on the field for 69 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 3 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 1 of 1 target for 0 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 Dawson Knox played 17 games and scored 103.7 PPR points, 6.1 a game, finishing TE28.

He caught 36 of 49 targets for 417 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 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.

Dawson Knox was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Dawson Knox 6.1, 6.2 a game between them.

Dawson Knox finished TE28 that year and Dallas Goedert TE7.

Dallas Goedert had 33 more targets than Dawson Knox, 82 to 49.

Dallas Goedert had 174 more receiving yards than Dawson Knox, 591 to 417.

This season Dawson Knox holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 67 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 Dawson Knox.

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.