George Kittle or Saquon Barkley: 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 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 15.

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.

No season market is posted for Saquon Barkley, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

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, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

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 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17.5 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Saquon Barkley was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 George Kittle scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Saquon Barkley 14.5, 0.2 a game between them.

George Kittle finished TE13 and Saquon Barkley RB14, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for George Kittle.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Saquon Barkley has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.