Should I start Mike Gesicki or Travis Kelce in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Mike Gesicki, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Mike Gesicki's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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 through Week 9

Through Week 9, Mike Gesicki has been on the field for 48 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 3 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have averaged 10.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he caught 4 of 6 targets for 76 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against ATL he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Mike Gesicki played 13 games and scored 70.7 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing TE41.

He caught 28 of 42 targets for 307 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.2 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 11.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 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 4 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Mike Gesicki 5.4, 5.9 a game between them.

Mike Gesicki finished TE41 that year and Travis Kelce TE3.

Travis Kelce had 66 more targets than Mike Gesicki, 108 to 42.

Travis Kelce had 544 more receiving yards than Mike Gesicki, 851 to 307.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 48 percent.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 20 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Mike Gesicki is off in Week 6 and Travis Kelce in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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