Sam LaPorta or T.J. Hockenson: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has 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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TE5 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Market price
- 12.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · MIN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-3
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size218 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 market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Sam LaPorta: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry T.J. Hockenson at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Sam LaPorta at 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 66th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for T.J. Hockenson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Sam LaPorta has been on the field for 87 percent of DET snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 32 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.
In Week 2 against BUF he caught 6 of 7 targets for 52 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 4 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CAR he caught 8 of 13 targets for 84 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 4, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 76 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 24 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 26 targets have averaged 6.8 air yards.
In Week 2 against CHI he caught 3 of 4 targets for 29 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIA he caught 13 of 13 targets for 119 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Sam LaPorta played 9 games and scored 106.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing TE27.
He caught 40 of 49 targets for 489 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.
That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 90 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.
T.J. Hockenson was available for 6 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Sam LaPorta scored 11.9 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 4.4 a game between them.
Sam LaPorta finished TE27 that year and T.J. Hockenson TE26.
T.J. Hockenson had 17 more targets than Sam LaPorta, 66 to 49.
Sam LaPorta had 51 more receiving yards than T.J. Hockenson, 489 to 438.
This season Sam LaPorta holds the bigger snap share, 87 percent against 76 percent.
This season T.J. Hockenson holds the bigger target share, 26 percent against 20 percent.
Byes and availability
Sam LaPorta is off in Week 6. 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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