Cole Kmet or Sean Tucker: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Cole Kmet: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Sean Tucker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 188th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Cole Kmet at 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 186th highest figure of the 217 players the market prices.

The market has Sean Tucker at 3.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Cole Kmet has been on the field for 65 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 10.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Sean Tucker has been on the field for 3 percent of TB snaps, taken 6 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 3 times for 10 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 Sean Tucker played 17 games and scored 91.4 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing RB52.

He carried 86 times for 320 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 11 targets for 34 more yards.

That came to 5.1 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 16 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Sean Tucker was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Sean Tucker scored 5.4 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 0.5 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 and Sean Tucker RB52, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

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