Jake Ferguson or T.J. Hockenson: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 6:26 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on T.J. Hockenson, 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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TE17 · DAL · bye 14
2025 vs rec yds line 6-11
- Books price
- 8.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · MIN · bye unlisted
2025 vs rec yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jake Ferguson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 143.
Our board does not carry T.J. Hockenson at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and the sportsbooks have no priced market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Jake Ferguson at 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 books. That is the 119th highest figure of the 175 players the books price.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for T.J. Hockenson, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 5 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 5.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against WAS he caught 4 of 4 targets for 43 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Through Week 2, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 68 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he caught 4 of 5 targets for 36 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 29 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.
He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Jake Ferguson was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Jake Ferguson scored 11.1 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 3.5 a game between them.
Jake Ferguson finished TE5 that year and T.J. Hockenson TE26.
Jake Ferguson had 36 more targets than T.J. Hockenson, 102 to 66.
Jake Ferguson had 162 more receiving yards than T.J. Hockenson, 600 to 438.
Their snap share this season is the same, 68 percent each.
This season T.J. Hockenson holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 10 percent.
Byes and availability
Jake Ferguson is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for T.J. Hockenson.
What would change the answer
T.J. Hockenson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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