Start Trey McBride or Colston Loveland? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Trey McBride over Colston Loveland
Right: 24.5 to 0.0
- LAC D vs TE
- 24.5
- 4th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 80%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 35%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 24.5
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 2.5
- fantasy pts
- CAR D vs TE
- 11.5
- 14th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 87%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 8%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 0.0
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Trey McBride over Colston Loveland in Week 1.
Colston Loveland is priced by the books at 2.5 projected points and Trey McBride is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Trey McBride at ADP 38 and Colston Loveland at 61.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Trey McBride in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 2.5 fantasy points for Colston Loveland, with 33 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Trey McBride and ARI visit LAC.
LAC allowed 24.5 fantasy points to TEs in its one game this season, the 4th most in the league.
Tight ends caught passes for 95 yards and a touchdown against LAC.
Colston Loveland and CHI visit CAR on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
CAR allowed 11.5 fantasy points to TEs in its one game this season, the 14th fewest in the league.
Tight ends caught passes for 35 yards and a touchdown against CAR.
By points allowed to the position, Trey McBride has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Trey McBride was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Colston Loveland was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Trey McBride played 17 games for ARI and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.
He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets and 656 air yards.
He was on the field for 91 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Trey McBride, Week 18 of 2025 against LAR: 8 targets and 7 catches for 65 yards, 13.5 PPR points.
Trey McBride, Week 17 of 2025 against CIN: 55 of 57 snaps, 13 targets and 10 catches for 76 yards, 1 touchdown, 23.6 PPR points.
Trey McBride, Week 16 of 2025 against ATL: 55 of 57 snaps, 8 targets and 4 catches for 27 yards, 6.7 PPR points.
In 2025, Colston Loveland played 16 games for CHI and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.
He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets and 463 air yards.
He was on the field for 63 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Colston Loveland, Week 18 of 2025 against DET: 13 targets and 10 catches for 91 yards, 1 touchdown, 25.1 PPR points.
Colston Loveland, Week 17 of 2025 against SF: 54 of 66 snaps, 10 targets and 6 catches for 94 yards, 1 touchdown, 21.4 PPR points.
Colston Loveland, Week 16 of 2025 against GB: 53 of 64 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 30 yards, 6.0 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Trey McBride scored 24.5 PPR points and Colston Loveland scored 0.0.
The call was right: Trey McBride outscored Colston Loveland by 24.5.
Trey McBride, Week 1 against LAC: 60 of 75 snaps, 13 targets and 9 catches for 95 yards, 1 touchdown, 24.5 PPR points.
Trey McBride finished as the week's TE2 in PPR scoring.
Colston Loveland finished 2.5 points below the 2.5 the props implied.
Colston Loveland, Week 1 against CAR: 65 of 75 snaps, 2 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
TE1 · ARI · bye 14
2025 vs rec yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 6
- Draft pick
- ADP 6
- Tier
- 1
Ranked behind
TE3 · CHI · bye 10
2025 vs rec yds line 10-6
- Overall rank
- 71
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 2
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board65
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 1 and tier 2
- Board size244 draftable players
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