Evan Engram or Oronde Gadsden: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Oronde Gadsden over Evan Engram
- Market projects
- 7.1
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 48%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 12%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 5.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 58%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 12%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, 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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TE25 · DEN · bye unlisted
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- Market-based projection
- 5.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 143
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Oronde Gadsden at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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 Oronde Gadsden, 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 through Week 5
Through Week 5, Evan Engram has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
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.
Through Week 5, Oronde Gadsden has been on the field for 48 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against BUF he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 36 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
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 Oronde Gadsden played 15 games and scored 131.4 PPR points, 8.8 a game, finishing TE15.
He caught 49 of 69 targets for 664 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.
That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Evan Engram was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Oronde Gadsden scored 8.8 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 2.3 a game between them.
Evan Engram finished TE29 that year and Oronde Gadsden TE15.
Evan Engram had 7 more targets than Oronde Gadsden, 76 to 69.
Oronde Gadsden had 203 more receiving yards than Evan Engram, 664 to 461.
This season Evan Engram holds the bigger snap share, 58 percent against 48 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 12 percent each.
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