George Kittle or Matthew Stafford: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on George Kittle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Stafford: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

George Kittle's market-based projection is 15.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 38th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Matthew Stafford is 23.3 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a quarterback's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, George Kittle has been on the field for 73 percent of SF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 7.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he caught 6 of 7 targets for 82 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 70 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 5 of 6 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Matthew Stafford has been on the field for 97 percent of LAR snaps, dropped back 224 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 224 dropbacks and scrambled 4 times.

In Week 3 against DEN he completed 30 of 53 passes for 390 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 13 yards.

In Week 4 against PHI he completed 32 of 51 passes for 317 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 11 yards.

In Week 5 against BUF he completed 40 of 54 passes for 383 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Matthew Stafford played 17 games and scored 358.4 PPR points, 21.1 a game, finishing QB3.

He threw for 4707 yards on 597 attempts with 46 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 1 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 35.1 attempts a game at 7.9 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Matthew Stafford was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Matthew Stafford scored 21.1 PPR points a game and George Kittle 14.7, 6.4 a game between them.

George Kittle finished TE13 and Matthew Stafford QB3, which are two different ladders.

George Kittle is a tight end and Matthew Stafford a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Matthew Stafford is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for George Kittle.

What would change the answer

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