Should I start Kyle Pitts Sr. or Mike Evans in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyle Pitts Sr., and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Evans, and the board ranks him 84th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kyle Pitts Sr.'s market-based projection is 9.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Mike Evans is 4.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 9, Kyle Pitts Sr. has been on the field for 59 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 1 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 3.1 air yards.

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

In Week 8 against TB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CIN he caught 3 of 5 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Mike Evans has been on the field for 55 percent of SF snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 39 targets have averaged 14.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he caught 5 of 8 targets for 76 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SEA he caught 7 of 10 targets for 113 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against WAS he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

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 Mike Evans played 8 games and scored 84.8 PPR points, 10.6 a game, finishing WR76.

He caught 30 of 61 targets for 368 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 7.6 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 65 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kyle Pitts Sr. was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kyle Pitts Sr. scored 12.4 PPR points a game and Mike Evans 10.6, 1.8 a game between them.

Kyle Pitts Sr. finished TE2 and Mike Evans WR76, which are two different ladders.

Kyle Pitts Sr. is a tight end and Mike Evans a wide receiver, 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 Mike Evans in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Mike Evans is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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