Travis Kelce or Davis Allen: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Davis Allen: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

Davis Allen's market-based projection is 2.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 149th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 80 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 9 of 11 targets for 101 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Davis Allen has been on the field for 44 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 5.9 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Travis Kelce played 17 games and scored 193.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing TE3.

He caught 76 of 108 targets for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.4 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Davis Allen played 17 games and scored 62.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing TE44.

He caught 24 of 33 targets for 208 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 1.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Davis Allen 3.7, 7.7 a game between them.

Travis Kelce finished TE3 that year and Davis Allen TE44.

Travis Kelce had 75 more targets than Davis Allen, 108 to 33.

Travis Kelce had 643 more receiving yards than Davis Allen, 851 to 208.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 44 percent.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 4 percent.

Byes and availability

Travis Kelce is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Davis Allen.

What would change the answer

Travis Kelce is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.