Should I start AJ Barner or Tyler Allgeier in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyler Allgeier, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

AJ Barner's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 5 market sources. That is the 81st highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Allgeier is 2.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.

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

This season through Week 8

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.

Through Week 8, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 51 percent of ARI snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 4 of its 29 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 57 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against LAR he carried 18 times for 38 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he carried 8 times for 19 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he carried 11 times for 147 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 AJ Barner scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Tyler Allgeier 7.2, 1.4 a game between them.

AJ Barner finished TE14 and Tyler Allgeier RB39, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

AJ Barner is off in Week 11 and Tyler Allgeier in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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