Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or Charlie Kolar in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Charlie Kolar's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyle Pitts Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 124th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Charlie Kolar: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

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

In Week 4 against NO he caught 3 of 3 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 5, Charlie Kolar has been on the field for 65 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 23 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 1 against ARI he was not given the ball.

In Week 2 against LV he caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 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 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 10.3 a game between them.

Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 that year and Charlie Kolar TE62.

Kyle Pitts Sr. had 103 more targets than Charlie Kolar, 118 to 15.

Kyle Pitts Sr. had 786 more receiving yards than Charlie Kolar, 928 to 142.

This season Charlie Kolar holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 55 percent.

This season Kyle Pitts Sr. holds the bigger target share, 12 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Kyle Pitts Sr. is off in Week 11 and Charlie Kolar in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

1.3 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 projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.