Dawson Knox or Matt Hibner: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 8, 2026 at 4:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Dawson Knox, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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TE27 · BUF · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 3.7 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 178
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
TE30 · BAL · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 3.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size246 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Dawson Knox: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 178th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Matt Hibner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Dawson Knox, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Matt Hibner at 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 179th highest figure of the 207 players the market prices.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Dawson Knox has been on the field for 69 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against DET he caught 2 of 2 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against LAC he carried 1 time for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NE he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Matt Hibner has been on the field for 44 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against NO he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against DAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against TEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 34 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
Matt Hibner is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Dawson Knox holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 44 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 5 percent each.
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.
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