Cade Stover or Travis Kelce: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cade Stover: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 235th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 259th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Cade Stover at 0.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 213th highest figure of the 214 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, Cade Stover has been on the field for 26 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 0.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CIN he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against IND he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against DAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 20 yards and did not score.

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 Cade Stover played 9 games and scored 19.9 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing TE77.

He caught 12 of 16 targets for 76 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 1.8 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 6.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 43 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 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Cade Stover 2.2, 9.2 a game between them.

Cade Stover finished TE77 that year and Travis Kelce TE3.

Travis Kelce had 92 more targets than Cade Stover, 108 to 16.

Travis Kelce had 775 more receiving yards than Cade Stover, 851 to 76.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 26 percent.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 1 percent.

Byes and availability

Travis Kelce is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Cade Stover.

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.