Should I start Mike Gesicki or Charlie Kolar in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 7.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 24th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 45 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 76 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 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.

Charlie Kolar was available for 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mike Gesicki scored 5.4 PPR points a game and Charlie Kolar 2.1, 3.3 a game between them.

Mike Gesicki finished TE41 that year and Charlie Kolar TE62.

Mike Gesicki had 27 more targets than Charlie Kolar, 42 to 15.

Mike Gesicki had 165 more receiving yards than Charlie Kolar, 307 to 142.

This season Charlie Kolar holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 45 percent.

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

Byes and availability

Mike Gesicki is off in Week 6 and Charlie Kolar in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.