Should I start Cole Kmet or T.J. Hockenson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cole Kmet, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on T.J. Hockenson, and the board ranks him 102nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Cole Kmet's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 75th highest figure of the 182 players with a market-based projection.

The market has T.J. Hockenson at 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

T.J. Hockenson'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, T.J. Hockenson has been on the field for 60 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against TB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIA he caught 13 of 13 targets for 119 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 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 T.J. Hockenson played 15 games and scored 112.8 PPR points, 7.5 a game, finishing TE26.

He caught 51 of 66 targets for 438 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 8.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Cole Kmet was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 T.J. Hockenson scored 7.5 PPR points a game and Cole Kmet 4.9, 2.6 a game between them.

Cole Kmet finished TE36 that year and T.J. Hockenson TE26.

T.J. Hockenson had 18 more targets than Cole Kmet, 66 to 48.

T.J. Hockenson had 91 more receiving yards than Cole Kmet, 438 to 347.

This season Cole Kmet holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 60 percent.

This season T.J. Hockenson holds the bigger target share, 21 percent against 6 percent.

Byes and availability

T.J. Hockenson is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Cole Kmet.

T.J. Hockenson is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

T.J. Hockenson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.