Should I start Pat Freiermuth or Dallas Goedert in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 95th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Dallas Goedert's market-based projection is 8.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Pat Freiermuth: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dallas Goedert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 69 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 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.

Pat Freiermuth was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Pat Freiermuth 6.7, 5.7 a game between them.

Pat Freiermuth finished TE25 that year and Dallas Goedert TE7.

Dallas Goedert had 28 more targets than Pat Freiermuth, 82 to 54.

Dallas Goedert had 105 more receiving yards than Pat Freiermuth, 591 to 486.

This season Pat Freiermuth holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 59 percent.

This season Dallas Goedert holds the bigger target share, 17 percent against 15 percent.

Byes and availability

Pat Freiermuth is off in Week 9 and Dallas Goedert in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.