Dawson Knox or Tyler Goodson: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Dawson Knox: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 198th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Goodson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 203rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Dawson Knox at 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 180th highest figure of the 213 players the market prices.

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

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, Tyler Goodson has been on the field for 18 percent of DAL snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 3.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against BAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against HOU he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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.

In 2025 Tyler Goodson played 11 games and scored 5.2 PPR points, 0.5 a game, finishing RB121.

He carried 9 times for 24 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 8 more yards.

That came to 0.8 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dawson Knox was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dawson Knox scored 6.1 PPR points a game and Tyler Goodson 0.5, 5.6 a game between them.

Dawson Knox finished TE28 and Tyler Goodson RB121, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

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