Ted Hurst or Gunnar Helm: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 9, 2026 at 2:46 AM ET
Gunnar Helm is the start on the latest market price, 5.3 points to Ted Hurst's 4.3, with Ted Hurst on the market figure from his Week 5 game because his next market is not posted yet. This answer reorders when it is. What follows is how each has been used this season.
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WR63 · TB · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 4.3 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 165
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 19
TE30 · TEN · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 5.3 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size258 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 Ted Hurst: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 167th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Ted Hurst, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Gunnar Helm at 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 138th highest figure of the 200 players the market prices.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Ted Hurst has been on the field for 66 percent of TB snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 17.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against CLE he caught 2 of 7 targets for 27 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against MIN he caught 1 of 3 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 79 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 12 targets have averaged 3.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
Ted Hurst is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.
He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Ted Hurst is a wide receiver and Gunnar Helm a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Gunnar Helm is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Ted Hurst has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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