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Should I start Cole Kmet or Theo Johnson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 2:41 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

TE · CHI · vs NE

Market projects
3.3
fantasy pts
NE D vs TE
10.2
7th fewest to TEs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
54 of 100 at TE
Snap share
63%
Through Week 6
Target share
6%
Through Week 6
Sit

TE · NYG · at HOU · Out

Market projects
3.0
recent weeks avg
HOU D vs TE
10.6
11th fewest to TEs (2026)
Snap share
36%
Through Week 5
Target share
6%
Through Week 5
Start Kmet or Johnson? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Cole Kmet: 64 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Theo Johnson's 35 percent of the snaps and 4 percent of the targets. 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.

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

TE15 · CHI · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
3.3 pts a game

TE · NYG · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Overall rank
not on the board

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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 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Theo Johnson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

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.

No season market is posted for Theo Johnson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

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 5, Theo Johnson has been on the field for 36 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 10.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against TEN he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against ARI he caught 1 of 1 target for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 35 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 Theo Johnson played 15 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing TE18.

He caught 45 of 74 targets for 528 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.

That came to 4.9 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cole Kmet was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Theo Johnson scored 8.5 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 3.6 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 that year and Theo Johnson TE18.

Theo Johnson had 26 more targets than Cole Kmet, 74 to 48.

Theo Johnson had 181 more receiving yards than Cole Kmet, 528 to 347.

This season Cole Kmet holds the bigger snap share, 63 percent against 36 percent.

Their target share this season is the same, 6 percent each.

What would change the answer

Theo Johnson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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