Jakobi Meyers or Dalton Schultz: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jakobi Meyers's market-based projection is 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 93rd highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 8.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 94th highest figure of the 156 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jakobi Meyers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jakobi Meyers has been on the field for 81 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against NE he caught 7 of 8 targets for 64 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 61 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against IND he caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers played 16 games and scored 175.8 PPR points, 11.0 a game, finishing WR32.

He caught 75 of 110 targets for 835 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 11.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dalton Schultz played 17 games and scored 177.7 PPR points, 10.5 a game, finishing TE10.

He caught 82 of 106 targets for 777 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.2 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dalton Schultz was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jakobi Meyers scored 11.0 PPR points a game and Dalton Schultz 10.5, 0.5 a game between them.

Jakobi Meyers finished WR32 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Jakobi Meyers is a wide receiver and Dalton Schultz a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jakobi Meyers is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Dalton Schultz.

What would change the answer

0.4 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.