Noah Fant or Davis Allen: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 143rd highest figure of the 172 players with a market-based projection.

Davis Allen's market-based projection is 1.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 164th highest figure of the 172 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Noah Fant: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davis Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 167th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Noah Fant has been on the field for 50 percent of NO snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against BAL he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Davis Allen has been on the field for 44 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Davis Allen played 17 games and scored 62.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE44.

He caught 24 of 33 targets for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 1.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Davis Allen was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Noah Fant scored 5.0 PPR points a game and Davis Allen 3.7, 1.3 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 that year and Davis Allen TE44.

Noah Fant had 8 more targets than Davis Allen, 41 to 33.

Noah Fant had 80 more receiving yards than Davis Allen, 288 to 208.

This season Noah Fant holds the bigger snap share, 50 percent against 44 percent.

This season Noah Fant holds the bigger target share, 9 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

Davis Allen is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

1.5 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.