Tee Higgins or Evan Engram: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tee Higgins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 153rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Tee Higgins at 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Evan Engram at 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 140th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 79 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Evan Engram has been on the field for 60 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 4.7 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 1 target for 17 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.5 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Evan Engram was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 7.7 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 and Evan Engram TE29, which are two different ladders.

Tee Higgins is a wide receiver and Evan Engram a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Evan Engram.

Tee Higgins is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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