Should I start Cole Kmet or Isaiah Likely in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaiah Likely, and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Isaiah Likely is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Isaiah Likely'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 63 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, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 74 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 29 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 2 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 59 targets have averaged 8.1 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 7 of 12 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 11 of 13 targets for 94 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 6 of 11 targets for 99 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.

He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cole Kmet was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Cole Kmet scored 4.9 PPR points a game and Isaiah Likely 4.4, 0.5 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 that year and Isaiah Likely TE45.

Cole Kmet had 12 more targets than Isaiah Likely, 48 to 36.

Cole Kmet had 40 more receiving yards than Isaiah Likely, 347 to 307.

This season Isaiah Likely holds the bigger snap share, 74 percent against 63 percent.

This season Isaiah Likely holds the bigger target share, 29 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Isaiah Likely is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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