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Brock Bowers vs Amon-Ra St. Brown

2026 draft comparison · half-PPR

Updated Jul 7, 2026

TE · LV
ADP 19
Brock Bowers
WR · DET
ADP 7
Amon-Ra St. Brown
VS
The crowd's leanALL-TIME
92% would rather draft Brown over Bowers
8%Bowers
92%Brown
Based on 25 duels

Should you draft Brock Bowers or Amon-Ra St. Brown?

Last season — 2025, per game

BowersTE9 finish
2025
BrownWR3 finish
12.0Fantasy pts16.6
12Games16
7.2Targets10.7
5.3Rec7.3
57Rec yds88
0.6TD0.7
Full game log & past seasons
Brock Bowers
2025 game log
WKOPPFPTSRANKTGTRECYDTD
1
NE
12.8
TE2
8
5
103
0
2
LAC
6.3
TE16
8
5
38
0
3
WAS
7.8
TE14
5
4
38
0
4
CHI
7.1
TE19
6
5
46
0
5
6
7
8
9
JAX
37.3
TE1
13
12
127
3
10
DEN
3.2
TE29
3
1
31
0
11
DAL
10.7
TE6
12
7
72
0
12
CLE
8.5
TE10
9
6
55
0
13
LAC
20.3
TE1
4
4
63
2
14
DEN
12.6
TE5
5
4
46
1
15
PHI
5.8
TE21
8
6
28
0
16
HOU
11.8
TE12
5
5
33
1
Amon-Ra St. Brown
2025 game log
WKOPPFPTSRANKTGTRECYDTD
1
GB
6.5
WR48
6
4
45
0
2
CHI
34.7
WR1
11
9
115
3
3
BAL
17.2
WR9
8
7
77
1
4
CLE
22.5
WR4
7
7
70
2
5
CIN
14.0
WR17
9
8
100
0
6
KC
9.2
WR29
10
9
45
0
7
TB
17.6
WR13
10
6
86
1
8
9
MIN
14.2
WR16
13
9
97
0
10
WAS
14.3
WR18
8
5
58
1
11
PHI
5.2
WR51
12
2
42
0
12
NYG
25.4
WR3
13
9
149
1
13
14
DAL
12.2
WR19
9
6
92
0
15
LAR
34.9
WR1
18
13
164
2
16
PIT
7.4
WR40
9
4
54
0
17
MIN
10.8
WR27
13
8
68
0
18
CHI
19.4
WR5
15
11
139
0

Latest takes

Brock Bowers
  • Brock Bowers lead the way as the top candidates to finish above 200 fantasy points (half-PPR). With the league shifting towards TE-heavy offensive sets, we could see snaps across the position skyrocket.

  • Managers consistently overpay for superstars early (the curse of Brock Bowers in 2025). A star player like Bowers is going to cost a lot early in the season, especially if you are playing with inexperienced or uninformed chopped players.

  • The passing game will also get a lift from a healthier Brock Bowers. The team's top pass-catching weapon suffered a PCL injury and a bone bruise in his knee in Week 1 and played through the injury for three weeks before shutting it down until Week 9.

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  • Bowers, meanwhile, is onto his third quarterback in three years and will be hoping that Fernando Mendoza adjusts quickly to the NFL.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 30
  • I've had the best results getting my starting RBs from this stage, a solid, back-end top 12 WR, and Brock Bowers if he's going for somewhere near the mid $30s.

    Evan Hoovler· Jun 29
  • Bowers was plagued by injuries last season. He played through a couple of lingering injuries at the start of the season, and ultimately ended his season after 12 games.

    Ellis Johnson· Jun 29
  • As a rookie, Bowers set the rookie record for most receptions and yards at the position. These stats will knock your socks off: 153 targets, 112 receptions, 1,149 yards, five touchdowns.

    Ellis Johnson· Jun 29
  • Whether you prefer Brock Bowers or Trey McBride doesn't really matter. Neither should be drafted this high. Bowers, meanwhile, is onto his third quarterback in three years and will be hoping that Fernando Mendoza adjusts quickly to the NFL.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 28
  • Everyone is expecting the Raiders' rookie QB to pepper Bowers as he gets his feet wet. Expect to pay a premium for the top-ranked TE, this year.

    Evan Hoovler· Jun 25
  • Bowers is worth a look in the back half of the second round or early in the third round of 12-team fantasy drafts.

  • Widely considered one of the best TE prospects to ever enter the league, Bowers had 112 catches for 1,194 yards and five touchdowns on 153 targets as a rookie. With better health in 2026, he has a chance to match or exceed his rookie numbers.

  • Pat Fitzmaurice compared Bowers' potential fantasy edge to the advantage Travis Kelce provided during his peak seasons. Even as a rookie, Bowers posted elite receiving numbers and finished among the league leaders in targets, receptions, and receiving yards across all pass catchers.

  • Brock Bowers, Raiders (24) was the highest rated Tight End in the NFL Top 100 for 2025.

  • Bowers, meanwhile, is onto his third quarterback in three years and will be hoping that Fernando Mendoza adjusts quickly to the NFL.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 21
  • I am taking the post-injury discount on Brock Bowers after he missed five games in 2025. Despite missing those games, he actually scored more touchdowns (seven) than he did in his phenomenal rookie season.

Amon-Ra St. Brown
  • Top cap hit: Amon-Ra St. Brown, $33,110,000 (10.99 percent)

    Logan Ulrich· Jul 5
  • Amon-Ra St. Brown continues to dominate as a high-volume receiver, earning 172 targets in 2025.

  • There might not be a safer wide receiver to draft in fantasy football than St. Brown. The superstar has four straight top-seven finishes, including three consecutive WR3 finishes, and averaged 19.1 PPR fantasy points per game last year, scoring 14.8 or more in over 70% of the outings.

    Mike Fanelli· Jun 24
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  • Perhaps the ceiling gets capped slightly if Jameson Williams trends upwards and Sam LaPorta is healthier, but the Lions were bad last season, and the most important thing is that they might have a competent play-caller once again in Drew Petzing. The team has said they want to lean into what Jared Goff does best by using play-action passes heavily. That would be a bonus for St. Brown, who has consistently led the team in first-read target share on such plays.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 21
  • When you draft St. Brown, you have a pretty solid idea of what you're getting. He has recorded over 119 targets in every one of the five seasons he's played in the NFL and scored double-digit touchdowns in each of the last three.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 21
  • The Lions were bad last season, and the most important thing is that they might have a competent play-caller once again in Drew Petzing. The team has said they want to lean into what Jared Goff does best by using play-action passes heavily, which would be a bonus for St. Brown, who has consistently led the team in first-read target share on such plays.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 19
  • When you draft Amon-Ra St. Brown, you have a pretty solid idea of what you're getting. He has recorded over 119 targets in every one of the five seasons he's played in the NFL and scored double-digit touchdowns in each of the last three.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 19
  • Amon-Ra St. Brown falling to the turn on Sleeper is one of the biggest values in early drafts. While many drafters chase youth and upside, they are overlooking one of the safest elite assets in fantasy football. St. Brown has delivered elite volume and consistency for three straight seasons, thriving on heavy target share, red-zone usage and his chemistry with Jared Goff.

    Dennis Sosic· Jun 18
  • Perhaps the ceiling gets capped slightly if Jameson Williams trends upwards and Sam LaPorta is healthier, but the Lions were bad last season, and the most important thing is that they might have a competent play-caller once again in Drew Petzing. The team has said they want to lean into what Jared Goff does best by using play-action passes heavily. That would be a bonus for St. Brown, who has consistently led the team in first-read target share on such plays.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 17
  • When you draft Amon-Ra St. Brown, you have a pretty solid idea of what you're getting. He has recorded over 119 targets in every one of the five seasons he's played in the NFL and scored double-digit touchdowns in each of the last three.

    Tom Strachan· Jun 17
  • St. Brown is the unquestioned alpha in the passing game, averaging 159 targets during that span. Detroit's offense has been one of the league's best over the last three seasons, and there isn't really a reason to think that will slow down.

  • "I think it's been great. Meetings have been great. Out here at practice has been amazing," St. Brown noted. "It's still early, it's only been three practices but just being able to sit in the meeting rooms, being out there with him, talking with him, I think it's going to be great for us."

  • The 2024 offseason brought timely paydays for Amon-Ra St. Brown, Penei Sewell and Jared Goff.

    Sam Robinson· Jun 7
  • What if you have an Amon Ra, Gibbs, or a DET stack in the works? Swift makes more sense because of the Week 17 correlation.

    Chris Cash· Jun 6
  • Amon-Ra St. Brown come to mind as an NFL player who has the same WR1 year-over-year and isn't going anywhere, set to produce for fantasy teams once again in 2026.

    Adam Koffler· Jun 1

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