Corey Kiner or AJ Dillon: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB48 · NE · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- 146
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
RB · CAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- not on the board
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- not tiered
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
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Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Corey Kiner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 146th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry AJ Dillon at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
No season market is posted for AJ Dillon, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 11 percent of NE snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against JAX he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BUF he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LV he carried 6 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, AJ Dillon has been on the field for 12 percent of CAR snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 3 times for -3 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CLE he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -2 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DET he carried 5 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.
He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.
That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 AJ Dillon played 7 games and scored 9.1 PPR points, 1.3 a game, finishing RB113.
He carried 12 times for 60 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 more yards.
That came to 1.7 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
AJ Dillon was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Corey Kiner scored 2.3 PPR points a game and AJ Dillon 1.3, 1.0 a game between them.
Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and AJ Dillon RB113.
Both had 12 carries.
AJ Dillon had 1 more catches than Corey Kiner, 3 to 2.
This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger snap share, 12 percent against 11 percent.
This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 14 percent.
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