Should I start Cole Kmet or Sam LaPorta in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sam LaPorta, 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 66th highest figure of the 160 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Sam LaPorta 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.

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

This season so far

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 5, Sam LaPorta has been on the field for 88 percent of DET snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 37 targets have averaged 6.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYJ he caught 3 of 4 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CAR he caught 8 of 13 targets for 84 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 5 of 5 targets for 88 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 Sam LaPorta played 9 games and scored 106.9 PPR points, 11.9 a game, finishing TE27.

He caught 40 of 49 targets for 489 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 82 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 90 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cole Kmet was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Sam LaPorta scored 11.9 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 7.0 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 that year and Sam LaPorta TE27.

Sam LaPorta had 1 more targets than Cole Kmet, 49 to 48.

Sam LaPorta had 142 more receiving yards than Cole Kmet, 489 to 347.

This season Sam LaPorta holds the bigger snap share, 88 percent against 61 percent.

This season Sam LaPorta holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

Sam LaPorta is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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