Noah Fant or Travis Kelce: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Noah Fant: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 137th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Kelce: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Noah Fant's market-based projection is 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 132nd highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.5 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, Noah Fant has been on the field for 50 percent of NO snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 5.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against BAL he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against LV he caught 4 of 4 targets for 33 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against MIN he caught 1 of 1 target for 7 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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Noah Fant played 15 games and scored 74.8 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing TE37.

He caught 34 of 41 targets for 288 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 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 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Noah Fant 5.0, 6.4 a game between them.

Noah Fant finished TE37 that year and Travis Kelce TE3.

Travis Kelce had 67 more targets than Noah Fant, 108 to 41.

Travis Kelce had 563 more receiving yards than Noah Fant, 851 to 288.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 50 percent.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 9 percent.

Byes and availability

Travis Kelce is off in Week 5. No bye is listed for Noah Fant.

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.