Start Chig Okonkwo or AJ Barner? Week 10

Our Week 10 call

Start Chig Okonkwo over AJ Barner in Week 10.

Market-based projections have Chig Okonkwo at 8.8 points and AJ Barner at 7.3, a gap of 1.4. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. No player market is posted for AJ Barner this week yet, so his 7.3 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 7, 8 and 9 (7.0, 8.2 and 6.8); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 8.8 fantasy points for Chig Okonkwo, with 100 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.

The market-based projection for Chig Okonkwo is 36 receiving yards, 3-4 receptions and 0.3 touchdowns (14, 11 and 13 market sources).

No Week 10 player market is posted for AJ Barner yet. His market-based projections were 7.0, 8.2 and 6.9 points in Weeks 7, 8 and 9, an average of 7.4, which stands in until his Week 10 market posts.

That puts Chig Okonkwo 1.4 points ahead of AJ Barner on these projections.

Week 10 matchups

Chig Okonkwo and WAS visit NYG on Thursday at 8:15 PM ET.

NYG allowed 12.2 fantasy points a game to TEs this season over 8 games, the 11th fewest in the league.

Tight ends caught passes for 45 yards and 0.3 touchdowns a game against NYG.

AJ Barner and SEA visit LV on Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.

LV allowed 18.2 fantasy points a game to TEs this season over 8 games, the 4th most in the league.

Tight ends caught passes for 56 yards and a touchdown a game against LV.

By points allowed to the position, AJ Barner has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Chig Okonkwo is listed as questionable with a hip injury.

AJ Barner is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 10

Through Week 9, Chig Okonkwo played 68 percent of WAS snaps, drew 17 percent of the targets, earned 13 percent of the air yards and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

Chig Okonkwo, Week 5 against NYG: 44 of 62 snaps, 6 targets and 4 catches for 60 yards.

Chig Okonkwo, Week 6 against SF: 51 of 67 snaps, 7 targets and 7 catches for 69 yards.

Chig Okonkwo, Week 8 against PHI: 46 of 60 snaps, 4 targets and 2 catches for 32 yards.

Chig Okonkwo, Week 9 against LAR: 46 of 62 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 56 yards.

Through Week 9, AJ Barner played 87 percent of SEA snaps, drew 14 percent of the targets, earned 5 percent of the air yards and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

AJ Barner, Week 6 against DEN: 79 of 85 snaps, 4 targets and 3 catches for 16 yards.

AJ Barner, Week 7 against KC: 55 of 69 snaps, 3 carries for 4 yards, 5 targets and 4 catches for 42 yards.

AJ Barner, Week 8 against CHI: 60 of 63 snaps, 5 targets and 2 catches for 23 yards.

AJ Barner, Week 9 against ARI: 48 of 67 snaps, 3 carries for 3 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 7 yards, 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Chig Okonkwo played 17 games for TEN and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets and 218 air yards.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, AJ Barner played 17 games for SEA and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.

He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets and 248 air yards.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 10 calls

• Start Chig Okonkwo over Brenton Strange.
• Start Brock Bowers over Chig Okonkwo.
• Start Dalton Kincaid over Chig Okonkwo.
• Start Brenton Strange over AJ Barner.
• Start AJ Barner over Colby Parkinson.
• Start Dalton Schultz over AJ Barner.