Should I start Corey Kiner or Elijah Higgins in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Elijah Higgins, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Elijah Higgins's market-based projection is 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 109th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 11 times for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 4 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he carried 7 times for 38 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Elijah Higgins has been on the field for 39 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 1 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 2 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Elijah Higgins played 17 games and scored 58.1 PPR points, 3.4 a game, finishing TE48.

He caught 30 of 37 targets for 301 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 81 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Elijah Higgins was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Elijah Higgins scored 3.4 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 1.1 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and Elijah Higgins TE48, which are two different ladders.

Corey Kiner is a running back and Elijah Higgins a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Elijah Higgins.

What would change the answer

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