Should I start Pat Freiermuth or Kyle Juszczyk in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pat Freiermuth, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Juszczyk, and the board ranks him 108th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Pat Freiermuth's market-based projection is 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 222 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kyle Juszczyk is 6.2 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Pat Freiermuth has been on the field for 69 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 17 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against TB he caught 2 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Kyle Juszczyk has been on the field for 49 percent of SF snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 10.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Pat Freiermuth played 17 games and scored 113.6 PPR points, 6.7 a game, finishing TE25.

He caught 41 of 54 targets for 486 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for Kyle Juszczyk in the last completed season.

Side by side

Pat Freiermuth is a tight end and Kyle Juszczyk a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Pat Freiermuth is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Kyle Juszczyk.

What would change the answer

Kyle Juszczyk has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.