Should I start Corey Kiner or Isaiah Likely in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaiah Likely, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 12.7 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.

Isaiah Likely's market-based projection is 11.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 208 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, Isaiah Likely has been on the field for 75 percent of NYG snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 18 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 69 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against NO he caught 6 of 11 targets for 99 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against HOU he caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against PHI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Isaiah Likely played 14 games and scored 61.7 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing TE45.

He caught 27 of 36 targets for 307 yards and 1 touchdown, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 2.6 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Isaiah Likely was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Isaiah Likely scored 4.4 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 2.1 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 and Isaiah Likely TE45, which are two different ladders.

Corey Kiner is a running back and Isaiah Likely 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 Isaiah Likely 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.