Should I start Jared Goff or Tyler Higbee in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Jared Goff's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 19th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Tyler Higbee's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jared Goff, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Higbee, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Jared Goff has been on the field for 99 percent of DET snaps, dropped back 207 times and thrown 7.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 31 of 207 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 3 against NYJ he completed 25 of 32 passes for 269 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 8 yards.

In Week 4 against CAR he completed 32 of 52 passes for 412 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions.

In Week 5 against ARI he completed 19 of 30 passes for 271 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 1 yards.

Through Week 6, Tyler Higbee has been on the field for 57 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 83 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jared Goff played 17 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 17.9 a game, finishing QB9.

He threw for 4564 yards on 578 attempts with 34 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 45 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 34.0 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Higbee played 10 games and scored 71.1 PPR points, 7.1 a game, finishing TE40.

He caught 25 of 36 targets for 281 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 3.6 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jared Goff was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jared Goff scored 17.9 PPR points a game and Tyler Higbee 7.1, 10.8 a game between them.

Jared Goff finished QB9 and Tyler Higbee TE40, which are two different ladders.

Jared Goff is a quarterback and Tyler Higbee a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jared Goff is off in Week 6 and Tyler Higbee in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.8 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.