Should I start Daniel Bellinger or Oronde Gadsden in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Daniel Bellinger, and the board ranks him 213th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Oronde Gadsden, and the board ranks him 220th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Daniel Bellinger's market-based projection is 1.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 188th highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Oronde Gadsden is 1.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Oronde Gadsden's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Daniel Bellinger has been on the field for 43 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 4.2 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Oronde Gadsden has been on the field for 47 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he caught 5 of 5 targets for 52 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against HOU he caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 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 Oronde Gadsden played 15 games and scored 131.4 PPR points, 8.8 a game, finishing TE15.

He caught 49 of 69 targets for 664 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Daniel Bellinger was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Oronde Gadsden scored 8.8 PPR points a game and Daniel Bellinger 3.7, 5.0 a game between them.

Daniel Bellinger finished TE46 that year and Oronde Gadsden TE15.

Oronde Gadsden had 43 more targets than Daniel Bellinger, 69 to 26.

Oronde Gadsden had 378 more receiving yards than Daniel Bellinger, 664 to 286.

This season Oronde Gadsden holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 43 percent.

This season Oronde Gadsden holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Oronde Gadsden is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Daniel Bellinger.

What would change the answer

Oronde Gadsden has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.