Evan Engram or Rico Dowdle: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Evan Engram's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 110th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rico Dowdle is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season so far

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 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 6.3 a game between them.

Evan Engram finished TE29 and Rico Dowdle RB18, which are two different ladders.

Evan Engram is a tight end and Rico Dowdle a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Evan Engram.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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