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Should I start Cole Kmet or RJ Harvey in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:26 PM ET.

Start Cole Kmet: 64 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against RJ Harvey's 41 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Cole Kmet for RJ Harvey?

Yes, on the rest of the season. RJ Harvey projects 87 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (8.7 a game over 10 games), Cole Kmet 35 (3.5 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE16 · CHI · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
3.3 pts a game

RB37 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
8.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
107

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 107th 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 93rd highest figure of the 184 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for RJ Harvey is 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

RJ Harvey'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, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 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 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.

He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.

That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

RJ Harvey was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 7.2 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 and RJ Harvey RB20, which are two different ladders.

Cole Kmet is a tight end and RJ Harvey a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Cole Kmet for RJ Harvey?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. RJ Harvey projects 87 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (8.7 a game over 10 games), Cole Kmet 35 (3.5 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop RJ Harvey for Cole Kmet?

    No. Keep RJ Harvey: he projects 87 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (8.7 a game over 10 games), Cole Kmet 35 (3.5 a game over 10 games).

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