Sean Tucker or Dawson Knox: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Sean Tucker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dawson Knox: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 189th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Sean Tucker at 3.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Dawson Knox at 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 187th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

Sean Tucker's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Sean Tucker has been on the field for 3 percent of TB snaps, taken 6 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 3 times for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Sean Tucker played 17 games and scored 91.4 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing RB52.

He carried 86 times for 320 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 11 targets for 34 more yards.

That came to 5.1 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 16 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.

Side by side

In 2025 Dawson Knox scored 6.1 PPR points a game and Sean Tucker 5.4, 0.7 a game between them.

Sean Tucker finished RB52 and Dawson Knox TE28, which are two different ladders.

Sean Tucker is a running back and Dawson Knox a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Sean Tucker is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.