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Lil'Jordan Humphrey or Travis Kelce: who should I start in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 15, 4:06 AM ET.

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Travis Kelce, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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WR54 · DEN · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 1-7

Market-based projection
2.6 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

TE27 · KC · bye 5

2026 vs anytime td line 2-2

Overall rank
148
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
6

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size206 draftable players

Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Lil'Jordan Humphrey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Lil'Jordan Humphrey's market-based projection is 2.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 142nd highest figure of the 161 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Lil'Jordan Humphrey has been on the field for 14 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 14 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 80 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against IND he caught 9 of 11 targets for 101 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against MIA he caught 2 of 2 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against LV he caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Lil'Jordan Humphrey played 10 games and scored 34.6 PPR points, 3.5 a game, finishing WR127.

He caught 13 of 25 targets for 156 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2-3 targets a game, a 52 percent catch rate and 12.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 52 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Travis Kelce was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Lil'Jordan Humphrey 3.5, 7.9 a game between them.

Lil'Jordan Humphrey finished WR127 and Travis Kelce TE3, which are two different ladders.

Lil'Jordan Humphrey is a wide receiver and Travis Kelce a tight end, 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. No bye is listed for Lil'Jordan Humphrey.

What would change the answer

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

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