Should I start AJ Barner or Charlie Kolar in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 5:21 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Week 9 verdict
Start AJ Barner over Charlie Kolar
- Market projects
- 7.4
- recent weeks avg
- ARI D vs TE
- 16.6
- 7th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 88%
- Through Week 7
- Target share
- 13%
- Through Week 7
- Market projects
- 5.5
- recent weeks avg
- HOU D vs TE
- 10.1
- 4th fewest to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 65%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 12%
- Through Week 8
Start AJ Barner: 89 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Charlie Kolar's 68 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE7 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 8.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 42
TE34 · LAC · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Market-based projection
- 5.4 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 178
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The gap
- Board size297 draftable players
Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Charlie Kolar, and the board ranks him 178th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for AJ Barner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market-based projection for Charlie Kolar is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season so far
Through Week 7, AJ Barner has been on the field for 88 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 3 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 29 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.
In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against KC he carried 3 times for 4 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 42 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Charlie Kolar has been on the field for 65 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 5 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against LAR he caught 1 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games 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.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Charlie Kolar played 17 games and scored 36.2 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing TE62.
He caught 10 of 15 targets for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.
That came to 0.9 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 40 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 6.5 a game between them.
AJ Barner finished TE14 that year and Charlie Kolar TE62.
AJ Barner had 53 more targets than Charlie Kolar, 68 to 15.
AJ Barner had 377 more receiving yards than Charlie Kolar, 519 to 142.
This season AJ Barner holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 65 percent.
This season AJ Barner holds the bigger target share, 13 percent against 12 percent.
Byes and availability
AJ Barner is off in Week 11 and Charlie Kolar in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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