Should I start Zay Flowers or Tucker Kraft in Week 6?

Updated Oct 19, 1:56 AM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Tucker Kraft: 81 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Zay Flowers's 64 percent of the snaps and 31 percent of the targets. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Zay Flowers

WR17 · BAL · bye 13

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Market-based projection: 13.5 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 43

Tucker Kraft

TE8 · GB · bye 11

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Market-based projection: 12.0 pts a game

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The gap

Board size330 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tucker Kraft, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Zay Flowers, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Tucker Kraft's market-based projection is 12.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 14th highest figure of the 29 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 55 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against DAL he carried 1 time for 20 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 84 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TEN he caught 8 of 10 targets for 118 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against ATL he carried 1 time for 13 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 53 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tucker Kraft has been on the field for 81 percent of GB snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.

In Week 3 against ATL he caught 4 of 8 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.

He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Zay Flowers was available for 9 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tucker Kraft scored 14.7 PPR points a game and Zay Flowers 14.3, 0.3 a game between them.

Zay Flowers finished WR7 and Tucker Kraft TE24, which are two different ladders.

Zay Flowers is a wide receiver and Tucker Kraft a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 and Tucker Kraft in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Zay Flowers has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.