Should I start Evan Engram or Josh Oliver in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Josh Oliver: 55 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Evan Engram's 46 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE · DEN · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 1-8
- Market-based projection
- 4.5 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 295
TE · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs anytime td line 3-12
- Overall rank
- 299
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The gap
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Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Evan Engram, and the board ranks him 295th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Oliver, and the board ranks him 299th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Evan Engram, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Josh Oliver, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 9, Evan Engram has been on the field for 53 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 0 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 32 two minute targets.
His 30 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.
In Week 7 against ARI he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against KC he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against CAR he caught 4 of 5 targets for 33 yards and did not score.
Through Week 3, Josh Oliver has been on the field for 55 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 3.6 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 1 of 1 target for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he was not given the ball.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Josh Oliver played 15 games and scored 55.0 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE49.
He caught 15 of 19 targets for 160 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 1.3 targets a game, a 79 percent catch rate and 10.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Evan Engram was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Evan Engram scored 6.4 PPR points a game and Josh Oliver 3.7, 2.8 a game between them.
Evan Engram finished TE29 that year and Josh Oliver TE49.
Evan Engram had 57 more targets than Josh Oliver, 76 to 19.
Evan Engram had 301 more receiving yards than Josh Oliver, 461 to 160.
This season Josh Oliver holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 53 percent.
This season Evan Engram holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 7 percent.
Byes and availability
Evan Engram is off in Week 10 and Josh Oliver in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Josh Oliver is listed as ir on the injury report.
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