Should I start Drew Sample or Travis Kelce in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Drew Sample, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Drew Sample's market-based projection is 2.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 80th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Drew Sample has been on the field for 51 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 0 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he was not given the ball.

In Week 9 against ATL he was not given the ball.

Through Week 9, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 77 percent of KC snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 12 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 4 of 8 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NYJ he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 72 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Drew Sample played 17 games and scored 31.9 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing TE64.

He caught 15 of 20 targets for 106 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 1.2 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 7.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Drew Sample 1.9, 9.5 a game between them.

Drew Sample finished TE64 that year and Travis Kelce TE3.

Travis Kelce had 88 more targets than Drew Sample, 108 to 20.

Travis Kelce had 745 more receiving yards than Drew Sample, 851 to 106.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 51 percent.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 3 percent.

Byes and availability

Travis Kelce is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Drew Sample.

What would change the answer

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