Raheim Sanders or Noah Fant: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Raheim Sanders: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Noah Fant: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 197th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Raheim Sanders at 6.0 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Noah Fant at 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 177th highest figure of the 213 players the market prices.

Raheim Sanders's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Raheim Sanders has been on the field for 33 percent of CLE snaps, taken 6 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 1.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TB he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 1 time for 17 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 3, Noah Fant has been on the field for 47 percent of NO snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 1 against DET he caught 4 of 8 targets for 33 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Raheim Sanders played 4 games and scored 20.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing RB95.

He carried 27 times for 92 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 more yards.

That came to 6.8 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 12 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 8.5 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Noah Fant was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Raheim Sanders scored 5.1 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 0.1 a game between them.

Raheim Sanders finished RB95 and Noah Fant TE37, which are two different ladders.

Raheim Sanders is a running back and Noah Fant a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Raheim Sanders is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.