Should I start Cole Kmet or George Pickens in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Pickens, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for George Pickens is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

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.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, George Pickens has been on the field for 84 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 3 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 52 targets have averaged 11.2 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 2 of 3 targets for 75 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 9 of 13 targets for 130 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 6 of 11 targets for 73 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 George Pickens played 17 games and scored 291.9 PPR points, 17.2 a game, finishing WR5.

He caught 93 of 137 targets for 1429 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 21 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 15.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 83 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

George Pickens was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 George Pickens scored 17.2 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 12.3 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 and George Pickens WR5, which are two different ladders.

Cole Kmet is a tight end and George Pickens a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

George Pickens is off in Week 14. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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