Brock Bowers or Cole Kmet: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 17; 2QB: ADP 32.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cole Kmet: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Brock Bowers at 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Cole Kmet at 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

Brock Bowers's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 78 percent of LV snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 9.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he caught 10 of 13 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against KC he caught 6 of 11 targets for 86 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NE he caught 8 of 10 targets for 110 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Bowers played 12 games and scored 176.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE11.

He caught 64 of 86 targets for 680 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 16 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 74 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Cole Kmet played 16 games and scored 78.7 PPR points, 4.9 a game, finishing TE36.

He caught 30 of 48 targets for 347 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cole Kmet was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 9.8 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 that year and Cole Kmet TE36.

Brock Bowers had 38 more targets than Cole Kmet, 86 to 48.

Brock Bowers had 333 more receiving yards than Cole Kmet, 680 to 347.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 61 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 30 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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