Jake Bates or Dalton Kincaid: who to draft first
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 9:56 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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K18 · DET · bye 6
- Overall rank
- 213
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
TE24 · BUF · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 5-7
- Overall rank
- 214
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jake Bates: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 213th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 167.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Kincaid: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 165.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Jake Bates, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Dalton Kincaid, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 1
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Jake Bates this season.
Through Week 1, Dalton Kincaid has been on the field for 72 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 16.3 air yards.
In Week 1 against HOU he caught 5 of 6 targets for 130 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jake Bates played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing K9.
In 2025 Dalton Kincaid played 12 games and scored 126.1 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE20.
He caught 39 of 49 targets for 571 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 40 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jake Bates was available for 5 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Dalton Kincaid scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Jake Bates 8.4, 2.1 a game between them.
Jake Bates finished K9 and Dalton Kincaid TE20, which are two different ladders.
Jake Bates is a kicker and Dalton Kincaid a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Jake Bates is off in Week 6 and Dalton Kincaid in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
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