Travis Kelce or Alec Pierce: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 209th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Alec Pierce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 212th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 80 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 9 of 11 targets for 101 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Alec Pierce has been on the field for 41 percent of IND snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 13 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 16.1 air yards.

In Week 1 against BAL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against KC he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Travis Kelce played 17 games and scored 193.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing TE3.

He caught 76 of 108 targets for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.4 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Alec Pierce played 15 games and scored 183.3 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR28.

He caught 47 of 84 targets for 1003 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 21.3 yards a catch.

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

Travis Kelce was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Alec Pierce scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Travis Kelce 11.4, 0.9 a game between them.

Travis Kelce finished TE3 and Alec Pierce WR28, which are two different ladders.

Travis Kelce is a tight end and Alec Pierce a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Travis Kelce is off in Week 5 and Alec Pierce in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Alec Pierce is listed as ir on the injury report.