Should I start Darnell Washington or George Kittle in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Kittle, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 28th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for George Kittle is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, George Kittle has been on the field for 78 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 1 of its 28 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 53 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 5 of 8 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ATL he caught 8 of 10 targets for 88 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LV he caught 4 of 7 targets for 58 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 George Kittle played 11 games and scored 161.5 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE13.

He caught 57 of 69 targets for 628 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 80 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Darnell Washington was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 George Kittle scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 10.1 a game between them.

Darnell Washington finished TE39 that year and George Kittle TE13.

George Kittle had 26 more targets than Darnell Washington, 69 to 43.

George Kittle had 264 more receiving yards than Darnell Washington, 628 to 364.

This season George Kittle holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 65 percent.

This season George Kittle holds the bigger target share, 23 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and George Kittle in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

George Kittle has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.