Should I start Darnell Washington or Darren Waller in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Darren Waller is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Darren Waller has been on the field for 49 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 35 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darnell Washington was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Darren Waller scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 5.3 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 that year and Darren Waller TE33.

Darnell Washington had 9 more targets than Darren Waller, 43 to 34.

Darnell Washington had 81 more receiving yards than Darren Waller, 364 to 283.

This season Darnell Washington holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 49 percent.

This season Darren Waller holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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