Daniel Bellinger or Dareke Young: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Daniel Bellinger: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 223rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dareke Young: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 235th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Daniel Bellinger at 2.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 200th highest figure of the 222 players the market prices.

The market has Dareke Young at 1.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dareke Young's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Daniel Bellinger has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Dareke Young has been on the field for 16 percent of LV snaps, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 8.3 air yards.

In Week 2 against LAC he caught 1 of 1 target for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NO he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Daniel Bellinger played 16 games and scored 59.6 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE46.

He caught 19 of 26 targets for 286 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 48 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dareke Young played 9 games and scored 6.8 PPR points, 0.8 a game.

He caught 2 of 3 targets for 48 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.

That came to 0.3 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 24.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 9 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Daniel Bellinger was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Daniel Bellinger scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Dareke Young 0.8, 3.0 a game between them.

Daniel Bellinger is a tight end and Dareke Young a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Dareke Young is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.