Should I start Tee Higgins or Cole Kmet in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tee Higgins, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tee Higgins is 3.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Tee Higgins has been on the field for 77 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 43 targets have averaged 13.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he caught 6 of 7 targets for 90 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against JAX he caught 11 of 16 targets for 157 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he caught 2 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tee Higgins played 15 games and scored 211.6 PPR points, 14.1 a game, finishing WR15.

He caught 59 of 98 targets for 846 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 6-7 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 14.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Cole Kmet was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tee Higgins scored 14.1 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 9.2 a game between them.

Tee Higgins finished WR15 and Cole Kmet TE36, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tee Higgins is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

What would change the answer

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