Should I start Drew Sample or Dawson Knox in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Sample, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Dawson Knox at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

Drew Sample's market-based projection is 2.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Dawson Knox, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Drew Sample has been on the field for 51 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he was not given the ball.

In Week 9 against ATL he was not given the ball.

Through Week 9, Dawson Knox has been on the field for 69 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 2 of its 27 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 4.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 1 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BAL he caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against MIN he caught 4 of 5 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Drew Sample played 17 games and scored 31.9 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing TE64.

He caught 15 of 20 targets for 106 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 1.2 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 7.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dawson Knox played 17 games and scored 103.7 PPR points, 6.1 a game, finishing TE28.

He caught 36 of 49 targets for 417 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 2.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Dawson Knox scored 6.1 PPR points a game and Drew Sample 1.9, 4.2 a game between them.

Drew Sample finished TE64 that year and Dawson Knox TE28.

Dawson Knox had 29 more targets than Drew Sample, 49 to 20.

Dawson Knox had 311 more receiving yards than Drew Sample, 417 to 106.

This season Dawson Knox holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 51 percent.

This season Dawson Knox holds the bigger target share, 8 percent against 3 percent.

What would change the answer

Dawson Knox has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.