Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or D'Andre Swift in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

The market-based projections

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 6.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

D'Andre Swift's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 8 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 19 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 16 times for 44 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 26 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he carried 27 times for 69 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

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

Kyle Pitts Sr. was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Kyle Pitts Sr. 12.4, 1.9 a game between them.

Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 and D'Andre Swift RB15, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Pitts Sr. is a tight end and D'Andre Swift a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyle Pitts Sr. is off in Week 11 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.