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Should I start Kendrick Bourne or Colston Loveland in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 2:11 AM ET.

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  • : Kendrick Bourne: Out to IR (Lower Leg, Fracture) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Kendrick Bourne: Questionable to Out (Ankle, Sprain) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Kendrick Bourne: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Colston Loveland: 84 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kendrick Bourne's 47 percent of the snaps and 13 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.

WR29 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs anytime td line 0-8

Market-based projection
8.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
55

TE3 · CHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 2-6

Market-based projection
12.9 pts a game

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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 Kendrick Bourne, and the board ranks him 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

The market-based projections

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

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 54 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 38 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 5 of 8 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 1 of 2 targets for 29 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 2 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Colston Loveland scored 10.3 PPR points a game and Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 4.6 a game between them.

Kendrick Bourne finished WR68 and Colston Loveland TE12, which are two different ladders.

Kendrick Bourne is a wide receiver and Colston Loveland a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kendrick Bourne is off in Week 14 and Colston Loveland in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Kendrick Bourne is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Kendrick Bourne 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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