Should I start Braelon Allen or AJ Barner in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

AJ Barner's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 96th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 66 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 32 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against NE he carried 17 times for 78 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIA he carried 17 times for 104 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he carried 21 times for 147 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, AJ Barner has been on the field for 88 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 3 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 34 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 3 times for 4 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 42 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he caught 2 of 5 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.

He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

AJ Barner was available for 13 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Braelon Allen 3.8, 4.8 a game between them.

Braelon Allen finished RB100 and AJ Barner TE14, which are two different ladders.

Braelon Allen is a running back and AJ Barner a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Braelon Allen is off in Week 13 and AJ Barner in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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