Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or AJ Barner in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 20th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for AJ Barner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 8, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and AJ Barner 8.7, 3.7 a game between them.

Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 that year and AJ Barner TE14.

Kyle Pitts Sr. had 50 more targets than AJ Barner, 118 to 68.

Kyle Pitts Sr. had 409 more receiving yards than AJ Barner, 928 to 519.

This season AJ Barner holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 55 percent.

This season Kyle Pitts Sr. holds the bigger target share, 18 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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.