Start Shawn Bowman or Kylen Granson? Week 7
Updated Oct 22, 1:51 AM ET. Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
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- : Shawn Bowman: Signed with ARI (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Shawn Bowman over Kylen Granson
- Market projects
- 0.6
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 0.4
- fantasy pts
- CLE D vs TE
- 14.8
- 13th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 5%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 3%
- Through Week 5
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Our Week 7 call
Start Shawn Bowman over Kylen Granson in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Shawn Bowman at 0.6 points and Kylen Granson at 0.4, a gap of 0.1. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Shawn Bowman's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is. Market coverage on Shawn Bowman is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 0.4 fantasy points for Kylen Granson, with 100 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kylen Granson is under 0.1 touchdowns (11 market sources).
Player markets imply 0.6 fantasy points for Shawn Bowman, with 70 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.
The market-based projection for Shawn Bowman is 1 receiving yards and 0.1 touchdowns (3 and 10 market sources).
That puts Shawn Bowman 0.1 points ahead of Kylen Granson on the market projections.
Week 7 matchups
Kylen Granson and TEN host CLE on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
CLE allowed 14.8 fantasy points a game to TEs this season over 6 games, the 13th most in the league.
Tight ends caught passes for 53 yards and 0.7 touchdowns a game against CLE.
Injury status
Kylen Granson is not on the injury report.
Shawn Bowman is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 5, Kylen Granson played 5 percent of TEN snaps, drew 3 percent of the targets, earned 9 percent of the air yards and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
Kylen Granson, Week 5 against HOU: 3 of 63 snaps, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Kylen Granson played 17 games for PHI and scored 11.0 PPR points, 0.6 a game, finishing TE91.
He caught 7 of 9 targets for 40 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target and 27 air yards.
He was on the field for 20 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Kylen Granson, Week 18 of 2025 against WAS: 5 targets and 4 catches for 30 yards, 7.0 PPR points.
Kylen Granson, Week 17 of 2025 against BUF: 10 of 54 snaps, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.
Their other Week 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
Week 7 on the board
- Is Shawn Bowman playing Week 7?
- Is Kylen Granson playing Week 7?
- Cardinals depth chart
- Titans depth chart
- Week 7 TE rankings
- Week 7 fantasy rankings
- Week 7 start or sit
- Week 7 waiver wire
- Week 7 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 7
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 7 kicker rankings
- Week 7 defense rankings