Should I start AJ Barner or Keon Coleman in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 4:06 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start AJ Barner: 92 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Keon Coleman's 65 percent of the snaps and 15 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

AJ Barner

TE22 · SEA · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection: 7.1 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 124

Keon Coleman

WR46 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection: 8.4 pts a game

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The gap

Board size329 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 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 125th 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.

Keon Coleman's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, AJ Barner has been on the field for 89 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 5 of 9 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 5, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 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 Keon Coleman 7.9, 0.8 a game between them.

AJ Barner finished TE14 and Keon Coleman WR60, which are two different ladders.

AJ Barner is a tight end and Keon Coleman 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 and Keon Coleman in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

AJ Barner has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.