Should I start Bucky Irving or Cole Kmet in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bucky Irving, and the board ranks him 88th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 4.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 66th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 61 percent of TB snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 21 times for 165 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against PIT he carried 19 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 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 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 8.9 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 and Cole Kmet TE36, which are two different ladders.

Bucky Irving is a running back and Cole Kmet a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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