Travis Kelce or Bo Nix: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 149th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bo Nix: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 11.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

Travis Kelce's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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 5, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 172 times and thrown 5.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 18 of 172 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against LAR he completed 17 of 34 passes for 186 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 7 yards.

In Week 4 against SF he completed 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

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 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Travis Kelce 11.4, 7.2 a game between them.

Travis Kelce finished TE3 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Travis Kelce is a tight end and Bo Nix a quarterback, 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 Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Travis Kelce is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.