Should I start Kenyon Sadiq or Mason Taylor in Week 6?

Where the draft room has them

Kenyon Sadiq goes at ADP 38, an average pick of 163.0, and the board has him TE36 in tier 13.

His earliest recorded pick is 106 and his latest 189, a standard deviation of 21.8 picks.

He appears in 18 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mason Taylor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 223rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kenyon Sadiq is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Mason Taylor is 1.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kenyon Sadiq's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Kenyon Sadiq has been on the field for 41 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DET he caught 7 of 8 targets for 105 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against CHI he caught 0 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Mason Taylor has been on the field for 56 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against CLE he caught 3 of 3 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Kenyon Sadiq is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Mason Taylor played 13 games and scored 88.9 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing TE32.

He caught 44 of 65 targets for 369 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 8.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Mason Taylor holds the bigger snap share, 56 percent against 41 percent.

This season Kenyon Sadiq holds the bigger target share, 15 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 13, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Kenyon Sadiq is listed as questionable on the injury report.