Marlin Klein or Travis Kelce: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, 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 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on 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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TE40 · HOU · bye unlisted
- Market price
- 1.4 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
TE42 · KC · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 2-2
- Market price
- 13.6 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 242
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size255 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 Marlin Klein: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 215th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 242nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Marlin Klein at 1.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 214th highest figure of the 219 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Travis Kelce, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 3, Marlin Klein has been on the field for 10 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 27 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 14.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against BUF he caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against CIN he was not given the ball.
In Week 3 against IND he was not given the ball.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
Marlin Klein is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 10 percent.
This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 1 percent.
Byes and availability
Travis Kelce is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Marlin Klein.
What would change the answer
Travis Kelce has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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