Should I start Darren Waller or Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Harold Fannin Jr. at 2.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Harold Fannin Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 10.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 3 of 6 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

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

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

Through Week 7, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 83 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 4.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against TEN he caught 6 of 9 targets for 91 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.

He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Harold Fannin Jr. was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. scored 11.7 PPR points a game and Darren Waller 9.9, 1.8 a game between them.

Darren Waller finished TE33 that year and Harold Fannin Jr. TE6.

Harold Fannin Jr. had 73 more targets than Darren Waller, 107 to 34.

Harold Fannin Jr. had 448 more receiving yards than Darren Waller, 731 to 283.

This season Harold Fannin Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 83 percent against 46 percent.

This season Harold Fannin Jr. holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 11 percent.

Byes and availability

Darren Waller is off in Week 5 and Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Harold Fannin Jr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.