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Should I start Dallas Goedert or Trey McBride in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 5:21 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

TE · ARI · vs DEN

Market projects
16.8
recent weeks avg
DEN D vs TE
13.3
14th most to TEs (2026)
Upside
Rising
78 of 100 at TE
Snap share
91%
Through Week 6
Target share
29%
Through Week 6
Sit

TE · PHI · vs DAL

Market projects
11.1
fantasy pts
DAL D vs TE
12.8
16th most to TEs (2026)
Upside
Rising
75 of 100 at TE
Snap share
65%
Through Week 6
Target share
18%
Through Week 6
Start McBride or Goedert? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Trey McBride: 95 percent of the snaps and 27 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Dallas Goedert's 56 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE5 · PHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-3

Market-based projection
11.1 pts a game

TE12 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs anytime td line 3-3

Market-based projection
16.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
88

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

The market-based projections

Dallas Goedert's market-based projection is 11.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 40th highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Trey McBride is 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Dallas Goedert has been on the field for 65 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

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.

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

Through Week 6, Trey McBride has been on the field for 91 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 4 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 65 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 7 of 12 targets for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 9 of 10 targets for 66 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 7 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trey McBride was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Trey McBride scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Dallas Goedert 12.3, 6.2 a game between them.

Dallas Goedert finished TE7 that year and Trey McBride TE1.

Trey McBride had 87 more targets than Dallas Goedert, 169 to 82.

Trey McBride had 648 more receiving yards than Dallas Goedert, 1239 to 591.

This season Trey McBride holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 65 percent.

This season Trey McBride holds the bigger target share, 29 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Dallas Goedert is off in Week 10 and Trey McBride in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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