Corey Kiner or Gunnar Helm: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Corey Kiner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Gunnar Helm: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 4.1 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.

Gunnar Helm's market-based projection is 5.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 184 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 5

Through Week 5, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 11 percent of NE snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

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

In Week 3 against JAX he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BUF he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 6 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Gunnar Helm has been on the field for 77 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 2 of 4 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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 Gunnar Helm played 16 games and scored 91.7 PPR points, 5.7 a game, finishing TE31.

He caught 44 of 55 targets for 357 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 8.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Gunnar Helm was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Gunnar Helm scored 5.7 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 3.4 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and Gunnar Helm TE31, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

Corey Kiner is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.