Dalton Schultz or Pat Freiermuth: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Pat Freiermuth over Dalton Schultz
- Market projects
- 8.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 69%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 15%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 7.9
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 61%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Pat Freiermuth, 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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TE12 · HOU · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 7.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · PIT · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size195 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 market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Pat Freiermuth at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 7.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 88th highest figure of the 152 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Pat Freiermuth, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
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.
Through Week 5, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 69 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against CIN he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.
He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Dalton Schultz scored 10.5 PPR points a game and Pat Freiermuth 6.7, 3.8 a game between them.
Dalton Schultz finished TE10 that year and Pat Freiermuth TE25.
Dalton Schultz had 52 more targets than Pat Freiermuth, 106 to 54.
Dalton Schultz had 291 more receiving yards than Pat Freiermuth, 777 to 486.
This season Pat Freiermuth holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 61 percent.
This season Dalton Schultz holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 15 percent.
What would change the answer
Pat Freiermuth has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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