Daniel Bellinger or Tim Patrick: 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 225th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tim Patrick: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 228th 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 203rd highest figure of the 225 players the market prices.

The market has Tim Patrick at 1.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tim Patrick'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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tim Patrick this season.

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 Tim Patrick played 16 games and scored 51.7 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing WR107.

He caught 15 of 24 targets for 187 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 1.5 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 12.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Daniel Bellinger scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Tim Patrick 3.2, 0.5 a game between them.

Daniel Bellinger finished TE46 and Tim Patrick WR107, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

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