Should I start Tucker Kraft or Travis Kelce in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tucker Kraft, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tucker Kraft's market-based projection is 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 18th highest figure of the 175 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Travis Kelce is 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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 8

Through Week 8, Tucker Kraft has been on the field for 82 percent of GB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 3 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 5.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 5 of 8 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 4 of 6 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 6 of 6 targets for 53 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 78 percent of KC snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have averaged 6.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against LAC he caught 4 of 5 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tucker Kraft played 8 games and scored 117.2 PPR points, 14.7 a game, finishing TE24.

He caught 32 of 44 targets for 489 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 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 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tucker Kraft scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Travis Kelce 11.4, 3.3 a game between them.

Tucker Kraft finished TE24 that year and Travis Kelce TE3.

Travis Kelce had 64 more targets than Tucker Kraft, 108 to 44.

Travis Kelce had 362 more receiving yards than Tucker Kraft, 851 to 489.

This season Tucker Kraft holds the bigger snap share, 82 percent against 78 percent.

This season Travis Kelce holds the bigger target share, 19 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

Tucker Kraft is off in Week 11 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.