Should I start Jake Ferguson or Corey Kiner in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jake Ferguson, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jake Ferguson's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 216 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 3.5 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.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Jake Ferguson has been on the field for 68 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against HOU he caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 3 of 6 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 12 percent of NE snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

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

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.

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

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jake Ferguson played 17 games and scored 188.1 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing TE5.

He caught 82 of 102 targets for 600 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 23 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 80 percent catch rate and 7.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Jake Ferguson was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jake Ferguson scored 11.1 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 8.7 a game between them.

Jake Ferguson finished TE5 and Corey Kiner RB112, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Jake Ferguson is off in Week 14 and Corey Kiner in Week 11, 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.