Elijah Higgins or Marlin Klein: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Elijah Higgins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Marlin Klein: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 221st overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Elijah Higgins at 2.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 191st highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.

The market has Marlin Klein at 0.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a tight end's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 33 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

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

In Week 3 against SF he caught 3 of 3 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 3, Marlin Klein has been on the field for 10 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 14.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

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

In Week 3 against IND he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Elijah Higgins played 17 games and scored 58.1 PPR points, 3.4 a game, finishing TE48.

He caught 30 of 37 targets for 301 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Marlin Klein is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Elijah Higgins holds the bigger snap share, 33 percent against 10 percent.

This season Elijah Higgins holds the bigger target share, 3 percent against 1 percent.

What would change the answer

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