Gunnar Helm or Xavier Worthy: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Xavier Worthy: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Gunnar Helm at 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 95th highest figure of the 145 players the market prices.

The market has Xavier Worthy at 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

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.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Xavier Worthy has been on the field for 80 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 5 of 7 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 4 of 7 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Xavier Worthy played 14 games and scored 109.9 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR59.

He caught 42 of 73 targets for 532 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.2 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 12.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 70 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Gunnar Helm was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Xavier Worthy scored 7.9 PPR points a game and Gunnar Helm 5.7, 2.1 a game between them.

Gunnar Helm finished TE31 and Xavier Worthy WR59, which are two different ladders.

Gunnar Helm is a tight end and Xavier Worthy a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Xavier Worthy is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Gunnar Helm.

What would change the answer

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