Should I start AJ Barner or Christian Kirk in Week 7?

The market-based projections

AJ Barner's market-based projection is 6.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Christian Kirk's market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Christian Kirk, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, AJ Barner has been on the field for 90 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 52 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Christian Kirk this season.

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 Christian Kirk played 13 games and scored 57.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR100.

He caught 28 of 52 targets for 239 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 54 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 48 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

AJ Barner was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Christian Kirk 4.5, 4.2 a game between them.

AJ Barner finished TE14 and Christian Kirk WR100, which are two different ladders.

AJ Barner is a tight end and Christian Kirk a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

AJ Barner is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Christian Kirk.

Christian Kirk is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.