Should I start Cole Kmet or Mark Andrews 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 Mark Andrews, and the board ranks him 121st 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 Mark Andrews is 2.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Mark Andrews'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, Mark Andrews has been on the field for 66 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 2 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he caught 4 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CLE he caught 1 of 3 targets for 4 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 Mark Andrews played 17 games and scored 131.0 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing TE16.

He caught 48 of 70 targets for 422 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.1 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 8.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Mark Andrews was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Mark Andrews scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 2.8 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 that year and Mark Andrews TE16.

Mark Andrews had 22 more targets than Cole Kmet, 70 to 48.

Mark Andrews had 75 more receiving yards than Cole Kmet, 422 to 347.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 63 percent.

This season Mark Andrews holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Mark Andrews is off in Week 13. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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