Should I start Tyler Warren or T.J. Hockenson in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Start Tyler Warren: 91 percent of the snaps and 22 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against T.J. Hockenson's 56 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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TE5 · IND · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 13.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no draft data
TE51 · MIN · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 10.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 259
- Draft pick
- no draft data
- Tier
- 15
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- Draft positionno current draft data for both
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Warren, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on T.J. Hockenson, and the board ranks him 259th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Tyler Warren's market-based projection is 13.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 57th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.
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 5
Through Week 5, Tyler Warren has been on the field for 91 percent of IND snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 36 targets have averaged 4.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 9 of 10 targets for 55 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he caught 5 of 5 targets for 41 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PIT he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 83 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 60 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.
His 27 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
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.
In Week 5 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyler Warren played 17 games and scored 188.5 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE4.
He caught 76 of 112 targets for 817 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.
That came to 6.6 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 10.8 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 84 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.
Tyler Warren was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Tyler Warren scored 11.1 PPR points a game and T.J. Hockenson 7.5, 3.6 a game between them.
Tyler Warren finished TE4 that year and T.J. Hockenson TE26.
Tyler Warren had 46 more targets than T.J. Hockenson, 112 to 66.
Tyler Warren had 379 more receiving yards than T.J. Hockenson, 817 to 438.
This season Tyler Warren holds the bigger snap share, 91 percent against 60 percent.
This season Tyler Warren holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Tyler Warren is off in Week 13 and T.J. Hockenson in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tyler Warren is listed as out on the injury report.
T.J. Hockenson is listed as out on the injury report.
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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