Daniel Bellinger or Jared Wayne: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, 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 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM ET
Daniel Bellinger is the start on the latest market price, 1.9 points to Jared Wayne's 0.9, with Daniel Bellinger on the market figure from his Week 5 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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TE38 · TEN · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 1.9 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 211
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
WR88 · HOU · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 0.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size255 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 Daniel Bellinger: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 211th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jared Wayne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 214th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Daniel Bellinger, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Jared Wayne at 0.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 217th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.
This season so far
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 3, Jared Wayne has been on the field for 0 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 15.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against CIN he caught 2 of 7 targets for 33 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against IND he caught 1 of 4 targets for 20 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 Jared Wayne played 1 game and scored 4.0 PPR points, 4.0 a game.
He caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 0 red zone targets.
That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
Daniel Bellinger was available for 15 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Jared Wayne scored 4.0 PPR points a game and Daniel Bellinger 3.7, 0.3 a game between them.
Daniel Bellinger is a tight end and Jared Wayne a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
What would change the answer
Daniel Bellinger has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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