Should I start Dylan Sampson or Evan Engram in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 128th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.

Through Week 6, Evan Engram has been on the field for 57 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.

That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Evan Engram was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 0.6 a game between them.

Dylan Sampson finished RB55 and Evan Engram TE29, which are two different ladders.

Dylan Sampson is a running back and Evan Engram a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11 and Evan Engram in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Dylan Sampson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.