Should I start Brock Bowers or Corey Kiner in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Bowers, and the board ranks him 38th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brock Bowers's market-based projection is 13.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 217 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 13.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 14 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 85 percent of LV snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 26 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 2 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 69 targets have averaged 9.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 73 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against NYJ he caught 7 of 10 targets for 92 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against SF he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 4 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he carried 7 times for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against GB he carried 8 times for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brock Bowers was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 12.4 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 and Corey Kiner RB112, which are two different ladders.

Brock Bowers is a tight end and Corey Kiner a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brock Bowers is off in Week 13 and Corey Kiner in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Corey Kiner has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.