Should I start Jaleel McLaughlin or Dallas Goedert in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jaleel McLaughlin's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 95th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Dallas Goedert's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Dallas Goedert has been on the field for 59 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against WAS he caught 4 of 5 targets for 77 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 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.

Dallas Goedert was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Jaleel McLaughlin 3.9, 8.4 a game between them.

Jaleel McLaughlin finished RB82 and Dallas Goedert TE7, which are two different ladders.

Jaleel McLaughlin is a running back and Dallas Goedert a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dallas Goedert is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.

What would change the answer

0.6 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.