Should I start Dallas Goedert or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

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 48th highest figure of the 194 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Higbee is 1.8 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.

Tyler Higbee'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, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 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 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dallas Goedert was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dallas Goedert scored 12.3 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 5.2 a game between them.

Dallas Goedert finished TE7 that year and Tyler Higbee TE40.

Dallas Goedert had 46 more targets than Tyler Higbee, 82 to 36.

Dallas Goedert had 310 more receiving yards than Tyler Higbee, 591 to 281.

This season Dallas Goedert holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 57 percent.

This season Dallas Goedert holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 12 percent.

Byes and availability

Dallas Goedert is off in Week 10 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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