Should I start Darren Waller or Kenyon Sadiq in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 7.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 118th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Kenyon Sadiq's market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 126th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darren Waller: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenyon Sadiq: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Darren Waller has been on the field for 46 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 7.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against ATL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 3 against CLE he caught 5 of 8 targets for 51 yards and did not score.

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

Through Week 5, Kenyon Sadiq has been on the field for 41 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DET he caught 7 of 8 targets for 105 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CHI he caught 0 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 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.

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

Head to head

This season Darren Waller holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 41 percent.

This season Kenyon Sadiq holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Darren Waller is off in Week 5 and Kenyon Sadiq in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Kenyon Sadiq is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.8 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.