Should I start Zay Flowers or Dalton Schultz in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Zay Flowers's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Dalton Schultz's market-based projection is 9.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 4 market sources. That is the 41st highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 31st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dalton Schultz, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 67 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 58 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CIN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 137 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against BUF he caught 0 of 5 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Dalton Schultz has been on the field for 58 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 5.6 air yards.

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

In Week 6 against JAX he caught 4 of 6 targets for 33 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 5 of 6 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Dalton Schultz 10.5, 3.9 a game between them.

Zay Flowers finished WR7 and Dalton Schultz TE10, which are two different ladders.

Zay Flowers 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

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 and Dalton Schultz in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.