Should I start Charlie Kolar or Colby Parkinson in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Charlie Kolar, and the board ranks him 178th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Colby Parkinson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Charlie Kolar is 1.0 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Charlie Kolar has been on the field for 65 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against KC he caught 3 of 6 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he caught 1 of 4 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 63 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 1 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he caught 5 of 6 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Charlie Kolar played 17 games and scored 36.2 PPR points, 2.1 a game, finishing TE62.

He caught 10 of 15 targets for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 0.9 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 40 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Charlie Kolar was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 6.5 a game between them.

Charlie Kolar finished TE62 that year and Colby Parkinson TE17.

Colby Parkinson had 41 more targets than Charlie Kolar, 56 to 15.

Colby Parkinson had 266 more receiving yards than Charlie Kolar, 408 to 142.

This season Charlie Kolar holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 63 percent.

This season Charlie Kolar holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Charlie Kolar is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.