Devaughn Vele or T.J. Hockenson: 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 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on T.J. Hockenson, 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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WR36 · NO · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Market price
- 8.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · MIN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size221 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.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Devaughn Vele: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry T.J. Hockenson at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Devaughn Vele at 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 100th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for T.J. Hockenson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Devaughn Vele has been on the field for 91 percent of NO snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 31 targets have averaged 10.2 air yards.
In Week 2 against BAL he caught 5 of 7 targets for 64 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he caught 3 of 6 targets for 39 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ATL he caught 6 of 9 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 4, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 76 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 24 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 6.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 29 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIA he caught 13 of 13 targets for 119 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Devaughn Vele played 13 games and scored 66.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing WR95.
He caught 25 of 39 targets for 293 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.
He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
T.J. Hockenson was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 T.J. Hockenson scored 7.5 PPR points a game and Devaughn Vele 5.1, 2.4 a game between them.
Devaughn Vele finished WR95 and T.J. Hockenson TE26, which are two different ladders.
Devaughn Vele is a wide receiver and T.J. Hockenson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
What would change the answer
T.J. Hockenson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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