Kyle Monangai or Jonnu Smith: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kyle Monangai: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jonnu Smith: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 207th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Kyle Monangai at 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The player markets price Jonnu Smith at 2.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 187th highest figure of the 212 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Kyle Monangai has been on the field for 41 percent of CHI snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 6 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 10 times for 47 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 30 times for 146 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 4, Jonnu Smith has been on the field for 32 percent of GB snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against NYJ he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against ATL he caught 2 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he caught 1 of 1 target for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kyle Monangai played 17 games and scored 146.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB30.

He carried 169 times for 783 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 18 of 30 targets for 164 more yards.

That came to 9.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Jonnu Smith played 17 games and scored 85.2 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE35.

He caught 38 of 54 targets for 222 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 5.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 53 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Monangai scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Jonnu Smith 5.0, 3.6 a game between them.

Kyle Monangai finished RB30 and Jonnu Smith TE35, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Monangai is a running back and Jonnu Smith a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kyle Monangai is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jonnu Smith.

Kyle Monangai is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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