Should I start Corey Kiner or George Kittle in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Kittle, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 13.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

George Kittle's market-based projection is 15.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 213 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 9

Through Week 9, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 20 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 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

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

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.

In Week 9 against GB he carried 8 times for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, George Kittle has been on the field for 78 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 1 of its 28 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 53 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 5 of 8 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ATL he caught 8 of 10 targets for 88 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LV he caught 4 of 7 targets for 58 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 George Kittle played 11 games and scored 161.5 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE13.

He caught 57 of 69 targets for 628 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

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

George Kittle was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 George Kittle scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 12.4 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and George Kittle TE13, which are two different ladders.

Corey Kiner is a running back and George Kittle 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 and George Kittle in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.