Should I start Travis Kelce or Zach Charbonnet in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Travis Kelce, and the board ranks him 69th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Travis Kelce's market-based projection is 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 9.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Travis Kelce has been on the field for 77 percent of KC snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 27 targets have averaged 6.2 air yards.

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.

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

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Travis Kelce was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Travis Kelce scored 11.4 PPR points a game and Zach Charbonnet 11.3, 0.0 a game between them.

Travis Kelce finished TE3 and Zach Charbonnet RB24, which are two different ladders.

Travis Kelce is a tight end and Zach Charbonnet a running back, 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 and Zach Charbonnet in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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