Oronde Gadsden or Corey Kiner: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Oronde Gadsden: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Corey Kiner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Oronde Gadsden's market-based projection is 5.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 123rd highest figure of the 168 players with a market-based projection.

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.

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, Oronde Gadsden has been on the field for 48 percent of LAC snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 8.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against BUF he caught 0 of 3 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SEA he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Oronde Gadsden played 15 games and scored 131.4 PPR points, 8.8 a game, finishing TE15.

He caught 49 of 69 targets for 664 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 13.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 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.

Oronde Gadsden was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Oronde Gadsden scored 8.8 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 6.4 a game between them.

Oronde Gadsden finished TE15 and Corey Kiner RB112, which are two different ladders.

Oronde Gadsden 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.

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.