Tee Higgins or Tyjae Spears: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tee Higgins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyjae Spears: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Tee Higgins at 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Tyjae Spears at 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 145th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 79 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 25 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 13.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he caught 5 of 10 targets for 95 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against PHI he carried 7 times for 41 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 29 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 3 times for 5 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6.5 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5.5 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tee Higgins was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Tyjae Spears 8.6, 5.5 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 and Tyjae Spears RB44, which are two different ladders.

Tee Higgins is a wide receiver and Tyjae Spears a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Tyjae Spears.

Tee Higgins is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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