Should I start AJ Dillon or Nicholas Singleton in Week 7?
Updated Oct 24, 12:46 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start AJ Dillon over Nicholas Singleton
- Market projects
- 2.8
- fantasy pts
- TB D vs RB
- 17.0
- 3rd fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 12%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 4
- Market projects
- 1.3
- fantasy pts
- CLE D vs RB
- 16.1
- 2nd fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 12%
- Through Week 4
- Target share
- 0%
- Through Week 4
Start AJ Dillon: 12 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Nicholas Singleton's 12 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the carries. 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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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.
RB51 · CAR · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 181
RB56 · TEN · bye 9
- Overall rank
- 200
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The gap
- Board size332 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 AJ Dillon, and the board ranks him 181st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Nicholas Singleton, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for AJ Dillon is 2.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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.
The market-based projection for Nicholas Singleton is 1.3 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
AJ Dillon's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
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.
Through Week 4, Nicholas Singleton has been on the field for 12 percent of TEN snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 11 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
In Week 2 against PHI he carried 4 times for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against BAL he carried 3 times for 2 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
Nicholas Singleton is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
Their snap share this season is the same, 12 percent each.
This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Nicholas Singleton is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for AJ Dillon.
Both players in full
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