Should I start Elijah Higgins or Charlie Kolar in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Higgins, and the board ranks him 168th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Charlie Kolar, and the board ranks him 208th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 97th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Charlie Kolar is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 39 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Elijah Higgins played 17 games and scored 58.1 PPR points, 3.4 a game, finishing TE48.

He caught 30 of 37 targets for 301 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Elijah Higgins scored 3.4 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 1.3 a game between them.

Elijah Higgins finished TE48 that year and Charlie Kolar TE62.

Elijah Higgins had 22 more targets than Charlie Kolar, 37 to 15.

Elijah Higgins had 159 more receiving yards than Charlie Kolar, 301 to 142.

This season Charlie Kolar holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 39 percent.

This season Charlie Kolar holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Charlie Kolar is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Elijah Higgins.

What would change the answer

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