Cole Kmet or Elijah Arroyo: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 3:06 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Cole Kmet over Elijah Arroyo
- Market projects
- 3.4
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 61%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 2.8
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 27%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Elijah Arroyo, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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TE22 · CHI · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-4
- Market-based projection
- 3.5 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE · SEA · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size198 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Cole Kmet: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Elijah Arroyo at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped 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
Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Elijah Arroyo, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.
In Week 3 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Elijah Arroyo has been on the field for 27 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 16.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against WAS he was not given the ball.
In Week 4 against LAC he was not given the ball.
In Week 5 against SF he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Cole Kmet played 16 games and scored 78.7 PPR points, 4.9 a game, finishing TE36.
He caught 30 of 48 targets for 347 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.
That came to 3.0 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 69 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Elijah Arroyo played 13 games and scored 36.9 PPR points, 2.8 a game, finishing TE60.
He caught 15 of 26 targets for 179 yards and 1 touchdown, with 5 red zone targets.
That came to 2.0 targets a game, a 58 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Cole Kmet was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Cole Kmet scored 4.9 PPR points a game and Elijah Arroyo 2.8, 2.1 a game between them.
Cole Kmet finished TE36 that year and Elijah Arroyo TE60.
Cole Kmet had 22 more targets than Elijah Arroyo, 48 to 26.
Cole Kmet had 168 more receiving yards than Elijah Arroyo, 347 to 179.
This season Cole Kmet holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 27 percent.
This season Cole Kmet holds the bigger target share, 6 percent against 1 percent.
What would change the answer
Elijah Arroyo has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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