Cole Kmet or Keenan Allen: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cole Kmet: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 110th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Keenan Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Cole Kmet at 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 131 players the market prices.

The market has Keenan Allen at 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Keenan Allen's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

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, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 59 percent of IND snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 6.5 air yards.

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

In Week 3 against HOU he caught 6 of 9 targets for 63 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against PIT he caught 5 of 9 targets for 45 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 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.

He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Keenan Allen was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Keenan Allen scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 5.8 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 and Keenan Allen WR29, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Keenan Allen is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

Keenan Allen is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.