Tyler Shough or Dalton Schultz: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Tyler Shough at 16.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 200 players the market prices.

The player markets price Dalton Schultz at 10.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 200 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Shough: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dalton Schultz: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 197 times and thrown 8.3 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 197 dropbacks and scrambled 6 times.

In Week 2 against BAL he completed 27 of 34 passes for 252 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 24 yards.

In Week 3 against LV he completed 29 of 42 passes for 255 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 36 yards.

In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

Through Week 4, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 63 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against CIN he caught 12 of 14 targets for 140 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 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 9.5 yards a catch.

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

Dalton Schultz was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Dalton Schultz 10.5, 4.5 a game between them.

Tyler Shough finished QB26 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Tyler Shough is a quarterback 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

Tyler Shough is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Dalton Schultz.

What would change the answer

6.5 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 price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.