Tyler Badie or Corey Kiner: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Week 6 verdict
Start Tyler Badie over Corey Kiner
- Market projects
- 4.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.1
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 11%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB43 · DEN · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 138
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
RB48 · NE · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 146
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size228 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Corey Kiner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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.
Tyler Badie's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.
He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.
That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 18 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.
Tyler Badie was available for 12 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Corey Kiner scored 2.3 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 0.1 a game between them.
Tyler Badie finished RB77 that year and Corey Kiner RB112.
Corey Kiner had 4 more carries than Tyler Badie, 12 to 8.
Tyler Badie had 17 more catches than Corey Kiner, 19 to 2.
This season Tyler Badie holds the bigger snap share, 18 percent against 11 percent.
This season Corey Kiner holds the bigger share of the carries, 14 percent against 5 percent.
Byes and availability
Tyler Badie is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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