Tucker Kraft or Bucky Irving: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Tucker Kraft at 11.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

The player markets price Bucky Irving at 11.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tucker Kraft: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Tucker Kraft has been on the field for 82 percent of GB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYJ he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against ATL he caught 4 of 8 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 4, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 62 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 17 times for 89 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tucker Kraft played 8 games and scored 117.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE24.

He caught 32 of 44 targets for 489 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5.5 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Bucky Irving was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tucker Kraft scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Bucky Irving 13.9, 0.8 a game between them.

Tucker Kraft finished TE24 and Bucky Irving RB34, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tucker Kraft is off in Week 11 and Bucky Irving in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.1 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.