Should I start Travis Kelce or Keenan Allen in Week 10?
Updated Nov 11, 7:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Travis Kelce: 77 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Keenan Allen's 54 percent of the snaps and 22 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
Should I drop Keenan Allen for Travis Kelce?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Travis Kelce projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (11.9 a game over 8 games), Keenan Allen 81 (10.1 a game over 8 games).
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
TE5 · KC · bye 5
2026 vs anytime td line 3-5
- Market-based projection
- 11.4 pts a game
WR25 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 10.7 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 54
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Keenan Allen, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Travis Kelce's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 215 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Keenan Allen, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 77 percent of KC snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 12 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 29 two minute targets.
His 48 targets have averaged 6.7 air yards.
In Week 7 against SEA he caught 4 of 8 targets for 44 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against DEN he caught 5 of 7 targets for 67 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against NYJ he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 72 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 9, Keenan Allen has been on the field for 59 percent of IND snaps, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 17 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 14 of its 39 two minute targets.
His 58 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 7 against MIN he caught 3 of 3 targets for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against JAX he caught 7 of 7 targets for 67 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against DAL he caught 4 of 8 targets for 26 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Travis Kelce played 17 games and scored 193.2 PPR points, 11.4 a game, finishing TE3.
He caught 76 of 108 targets for 851 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.
That came to 6.4 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 11.2 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Keenan Allen played 17 games and scored 182.7 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR29.
He caught 81 of 122 targets for 777 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.
That came to 7.2 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.6 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Keenan Allen 10.7, 0.6 a game between them.
Travis Kelce finished TE3 and Keenan Allen WR29, which are two different ladders.
Travis Kelce is a tight end and Keenan Allen a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Travis Kelce is off in Week 5 and Keenan Allen in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Keenan Allen has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Keenan Allen for Travis Kelce?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Travis Kelce projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (11.9 a game over 8 games), Keenan Allen 81 (10.1 a game over 8 games).
Should I drop Travis Kelce for Keenan Allen?
No. Keep Travis Kelce: he projects 95 market-implied PPR points from Week 10 through Week 17 (11.9 a game over 8 games), Keenan Allen 81 (10.1 a game over 8 games).
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