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Should I start Kenyon Sadiq or Daniel Bellinger in Week 8?

Updated Oct 29, 3:21 AM ET.

Start Kenyon Sadiq: his market-based projection is 1.6 points a game ahead of Daniel Bellinger's this season.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE26 · NYJ · bye 13

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
4.6 pts a game

TE29 · TEN · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-7

Market-based projection
3.0 pts a game

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The gap

  • Price difference1.6 points a game
  • Board size306 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from the market projection.

The market-based projections

Kenyon Sadiq's market-based projection is 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Daniel Bellinger's market-based projection is 3.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 156th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kenyon Sadiq, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Bellinger, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kenyon Sadiq has been on the field for 40 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Daniel Bellinger has been on the field for 44 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 3.7 air yards.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 1 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Kenyon Sadiq is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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.

Head to head

This season Daniel Bellinger holds the bigger snap share, 44 percent against 40 percent.

This season Kenyon Sadiq holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Kenyon Sadiq is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Daniel Bellinger.

What would change the answer

1.6 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.

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