Should I start Corey Kiner or Adonai Mitchell in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Adonai Mitchell, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Adonai Mitchell is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Corey Kiner's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 11 times for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 4 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he carried 7 times for 38 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Adonai Mitchell has been on the field for 65 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 17.6 air yards.

In Week 2 against GB he caught 6 of 12 targets for 63 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he caught 7 of 9 targets for 142 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell played 16 games and scored 87.9 PPR points, 5.5 a game, finishing WR73.

He caught 33 of 74 targets for 453 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Adonai Mitchell was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Adonai Mitchell scored 5.5 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 3.2 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and Adonai Mitchell WR73, which are two different ladders.

Corey Kiner is a running back and Adonai Mitchell a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11 and Adonai Mitchell in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.