Denzel Boston or George Kittle: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on George Kittle, 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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WR31 · CLE · bye 11
- Books price
- 10.6 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE17 · SF · bye 8
2025 vs catches line 5-6
- Overall rank
- 132
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size230 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 sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Denzel Boston: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 186.
Drafters have formed no consensus on George Kittle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 121.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Denzel Boston at 10.6 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 books. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 186 players the books price.
The books have George Kittle at 7.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 books. That is 70 percent of what a tight end's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
George Kittle's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Denzel Boston has been on the field for 93 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 10 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 6 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have averaged 15.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against JAX he caught 2 of 4 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 2 against TB he caught 5 of 7 targets for 95 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 2, George Kittle has been on the field for 47 percent of SF snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 9.8 air yards.
In Week 1 against LAR he caught 2 of 5 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against MIA he caught 4 of 4 targets for 80 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Side by side
Denzel Boston is a wide receiver and George Kittle a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Denzel Boston is off in Week 11 and George Kittle in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
George Kittle is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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