Brock Bowers or Travis Kelce: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brock Bowers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 245th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Brock Bowers at 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 25th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Brock Bowers has been on the field for 81 percent of LV snaps, drawn 31 percent of the targets and had 24 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 13 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 10.6 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.

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.

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 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.

Travis Kelce was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Brock Bowers scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Travis Kelce 11.4, 3.3 a game between them.

Brock Bowers finished TE11 that year and Travis Kelce TE3.

Travis Kelce had 22 more targets than Brock Bowers, 108 to 86.

Travis Kelce had 171 more receiving yards than Brock Bowers, 851 to 680.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger snap share, 81 percent against 80 percent.

This season Brock Bowers holds the bigger target share, 31 percent against 19 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

Travis Kelce has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.