Tim Patrick or Drew Sample: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tim Patrick: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Drew Sample: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 230th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Tim Patrick at 1.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Drew Sample at 1.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 209th highest figure of the 228 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Tim Patrick this season.

Through Week 4, Drew Sample has been on the field for 49 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tim Patrick played 16 games and scored 51.7 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing WR107.

He caught 15 of 24 targets for 187 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 1.5 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 12.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Drew Sample was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tim Patrick scored 3.2 PPR points a game and Drew Sample 1.9, 1.4 a game between them.

Tim Patrick finished WR107 and Drew Sample TE64, which are two different ladders.

Tim Patrick is a wide receiver and Drew Sample a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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