Jaylen Waddle or Dalton Kincaid: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Jaylen Waddle at 12.6 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 books. That is the 69th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

The player markets price Dalton Kincaid at 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 70th highest figure of the 186 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 73.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Kincaid: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 164.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 67 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 8 of 10 targets for 138 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Dalton Kincaid has been on the field for 69 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 13.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against HOU he caught 5 of 6 targets for 130 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against DET he caught 7 of 8 targets for 95 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Jaylen Waddle was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Dalton Kincaid 10.5, 1.6 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and Dalton Kincaid TE20, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver 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

Jaylen Waddle is off in Week 10 and Dalton Kincaid in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The books restate 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.