Should I start George Kittle or Noah Gray in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Kittle, and the board ranks him 159th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Noah Gray, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for George Kittle is 4.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 10 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.

Noah Gray's market-based projection is 3.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 139th highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based 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 7, George Kittle has been on the field for 78 percent of SF snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 46 targets have averaged 7.7 air yards.

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

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.

Through Week 8, Noah Gray has been on the field for 58 percent of KC snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 3 of 3 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against SEA he caught 3 of 3 targets for 44 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DEN he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Noah Gray played 16 games and scored 38.8 PPR points, 2.4 a game, finishing TE59.

He caught 21 of 37 targets for 178 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 2.3 targets a game, a 57 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

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

Noah Gray was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 George Kittle scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Noah Gray 2.4, 12.3 a game between them.

George Kittle finished TE13 that year and Noah Gray TE59.

George Kittle had 32 more targets than Noah Gray, 69 to 37.

George Kittle had 450 more receiving yards than Noah Gray, 628 to 178.

This season George Kittle holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 58 percent.

This season George Kittle holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 7 percent.

Byes and availability

George Kittle is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Noah Gray.

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.