Elijah Arroyo or Sam LaPorta: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Sam LaPorta, 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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TE29 · SEA · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 1.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE30 · DET · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 11.5 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 218
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 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.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Elijah Arroyo: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 173rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Sam LaPorta: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 218th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Elijah Arroyo's market-based projection is 1.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 169th highest figure of the 178 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Sam LaPorta, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Elijah Arroyo has been on the field for 27 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 16.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against WAS he was not given the ball.
In Week 4 against LAC he was not given the ball.
In Week 5 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Sam LaPorta has been on the field for 88 percent of DET snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 37 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 4 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CAR he caught 8 of 13 targets for 84 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against ARI he caught 5 of 5 targets for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Elijah Arroyo played 13 games and scored 36.9 PPR points, 2.8 a game, finishing TE60.
He caught 15 of 26 targets for 179 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Sam LaPorta played 9 games and scored 106.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing TE27.
He caught 40 of 49 targets for 489 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 90 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Elijah Arroyo was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Sam LaPorta scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Elijah Arroyo 2.8, 9.0 a game between them.
Elijah Arroyo finished TE60 that year and Sam LaPorta TE27.
Sam LaPorta had 23 more targets than Elijah Arroyo, 49 to 26.
Sam LaPorta had 310 more receiving yards than Elijah Arroyo, 489 to 179.
This season Sam LaPorta holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 27 percent.
This season Sam LaPorta holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 1 percent.
Byes and availability
Sam LaPorta is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Elijah Arroyo.
What would change the answer
Sam LaPorta has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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