Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or J.K. Dobbins in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.K. Dobbins, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 61st highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

The market has J.K. Dobbins at 7.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

J.K. Dobbins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 55 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

In Week 7 against SF he caught 5 of 5 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 8 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 6 times for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. played 17 games and scored 210.8 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing TE2.

He caught 88 of 118 targets for 928 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 11 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 87 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.

He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Pitts Sr. was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and J.K. Dobbins 11.6, 0.8 a game between them.

Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 and J.K. Dobbins RB43, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Pitts Sr. is a tight end and J.K. Dobbins a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyle Pitts Sr. is off in Week 11 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

J.K. Dobbins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.