George Kittle or Ollie Gordon: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on George Kittle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ollie Gordon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price George Kittle at 12.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 63rd highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The market has Ollie Gordon at 10.8 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ollie Gordon's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, George Kittle has been on the field for 68 percent of SF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIA he caught 4 of 4 targets for 80 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Through Week 4, Ollie Gordon has been on the field for 43 percent of MIA snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 3 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 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 Ollie Gordon played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ollie Gordon was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 George Kittle scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon 3.2, 11.5 a game between them.

George Kittle finished TE13 and Ollie Gordon RB68, which are two different ladders.

George Kittle is a tight end and Ollie Gordon a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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