Should I start Corey Kiner or Cade Otton in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cade Otton, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

The market-based projection for Cade Otton is 1.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end'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 8

Through Week 8, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 18 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 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

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

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 11 times for 57 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 8, Cade Otton has been on the field for 94 percent of TB snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CAR he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against ATL he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Cade Otton played 16 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.6 a game, finishing TE22.

He caught 59 of 81 targets for 572 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cade Otton was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Cade Otton scored 7.6 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 5.3 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and Cade Otton TE22, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11 and Cade Otton in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.