Should I start Tommy Tremble or George Kittle in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 48th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Kittle, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 5.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 42nd highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for George Kittle is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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 8, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 56 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 1 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Tommy Tremble was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 George Kittle scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Tommy Tremble 3.8, 10.9 a game between them.

Tommy Tremble finished TE42 that year and George Kittle TE13.

George Kittle had 32 more targets than Tommy Tremble, 69 to 37.

George Kittle had 379 more receiving yards than Tommy Tremble, 628 to 249.

This season George Kittle holds the bigger snap share, 78 percent against 56 percent.

This season George Kittle holds the bigger target share, 22 percent against 10 percent.

Byes and availability

George Kittle is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

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.