Start Travis Kelce or Dallas Goedert? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Dallas Goedert over Travis Kelce
Right: 23.7 to 10.1
- WAS D vs TE
- 23.7
- 5th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 95%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 23%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 23.7
- PPR pts
- Books imply
- 8.6
- fantasy pts
- DEN D vs TE
- 13.5
- 14th most to TEs (2026)
- Snap share
- 71%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 20%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 10.1
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Dallas Goedert over Travis Kelce in Week 1.
Travis Kelce is priced by the books at 8.6 projected points and Dallas Goedert is not priced at all, so we are leaning on where drafters take them. Drafters take Dallas Goedert at ADP 125 and Travis Kelce at 127.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for Dallas Goedert in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 8.6 fantasy points for Travis Kelce, with 70 percent of the markets a TE needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
Dallas Goedert and PHI host WAS.
WAS allowed 23.7 fantasy points to TEs in its one game this season, the 5th most in the league.
Tight ends caught passes for 77 yards and 2 touchdowns against WAS.
Travis Kelce and KC host DEN on Monday at 8:15 PM ET.
DEN allowed 13.5 fantasy points to TEs in its one game this season, the 14th most in the league.
Tight ends caught passes for 85 yards and no touchdowns against DEN.
By points allowed to the position, Dallas Goedert has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Dallas Goedert was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Travis Kelce was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Dallas Goedert played 15 games for PHI and scored 185.1 PPR points, 12.3 a game, finishing TE7.
He caught 60 of 82 targets for 591 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets and 357 air yards.
He was on the field for 85 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Dallas Goedert, Week 17 of 2025 against BUF: 43 of 54 snaps, 6 targets and 3 catches for 8 yards, 1 touchdown, 9.8 PPR points.
Dallas Goedert, Week 16 of 2025 against WAS: 61 of 70 snaps, 3 targets and 3 catches for 32 yards, 1 touchdown, 12.2 PPR points.
Dallas Goedert, Week 15 of 2025 against LV: 51 of 69 snaps, 7 targets and 6 catches for 70 yards, 2 touchdowns, 25.0 PPR points.
In 2025, Travis Kelce played 17 games for KC 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 and 428 air yards.
He was on the field for 81 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Travis Kelce, Week 18 of 2025 against LV: 6 targets and 3 catches for 12 yards, 4.2 PPR points.
Travis Kelce, Week 17 of 2025 against DEN: 42 of 43 snaps, 6 targets and 5 catches for 36 yards, 8.6 PPR points.
Travis Kelce, Week 16 of 2025 against TEN: 35 of 45 snaps, 4 targets and 1 catch for 6 yards, 1.6 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Dallas Goedert scored 23.7 PPR points and Travis Kelce scored 10.1.
The call was right: Dallas Goedert outscored Travis Kelce by 13.6.
Dallas Goedert, Week 1 against WAS: 52 of 55 snaps, 5 targets and 4 catches for 77 yards, 2 touchdowns, 23.7 PPR points.
Dallas Goedert finished as the week's TE3 in PPR scoring.
Travis Kelce finished 1.5 points above the 8.6 the props implied.
Travis Kelce, Week 1 against DEN: 49 of 69 snaps, 5 targets and 3 catches for 71 yards, 10.1 PPR points.
Travis Kelce finished as the week's TE16 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
TE8 · KC · bye 5
2025 vs rec yds line 7-10
- Overall rank
- 112
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
Ranked behind
TE10 · PHI · bye 10
2025 vs rec yds line 5-10
- Overall rank
- 122
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 3
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board10
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tiersboth in tier 3
- Board size244 draftable players
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