Should I start Isaac TeSlaa or Dylan Sampson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 127th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 63 percent of DET snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 3 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 4 of 8 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Isaac TeSlaa was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 1.4 a game between them.

Isaac TeSlaa finished WR82 and Dylan Sampson RB55, which are two different ladders.

Isaac TeSlaa is a wide receiver and Dylan Sampson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Isaac TeSlaa is off in Week 6 and Dylan Sampson in Week 11, 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.