Mike Gesicki or Jake Ferguson: 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 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Jake Ferguson, 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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TE24 · CIN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market price
- 6.9 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE25 · DAL · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 2-3
- Market price
- 6.9 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 148
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 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 Mike Gesicki: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jake Ferguson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Mike Gesicki at 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 133rd highest figure of the 229 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Jake Ferguson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 46 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 31 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 10.4 air yards.
In Week 2 against HOU he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against PIT he caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against JAX he caught 3 of 5 targets for 40 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 4, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 69 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.
In Week 2 against WAS he caught 4 of 4 targets for 43 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 3 against BAL he caught 3 of 5 targets for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.
He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.
That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.
He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.
That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jake Ferguson was available for 4 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jake Ferguson scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 5.6 a game between them.
Mike Gesicki finished TE41 that year and Jake Ferguson TE5.
Jake Ferguson had 60 more targets than Mike Gesicki, 102 to 42.
Jake Ferguson had 293 more receiving yards than Mike Gesicki, 600 to 307.
This season Jake Ferguson holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 46 percent.
Their target share this season is the same, 10 percent each.
What would change the answer
Jake Ferguson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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