Should I start Kenyon Sadiq or Rico Dowdle in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Kenyon Sadiq's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 124th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kenyon Sadiq: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

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 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Kenyon Sadiq is a tight end and Rico Dowdle a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kenyon Sadiq is off in Week 13 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Kenyon Sadiq is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.5 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.