AJ Dillon or Samaje Perine: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

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.

Our board does not carry Samaje Perine 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.

What the player markets price

No season market is posted for AJ Dillon, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Samaje Perine, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

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, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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.

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Samaje Perine was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and AJ Dillon 1.3, 3.9 a game between them.

AJ Dillon finished RB113 that year and Samaje Perine RB57.

Samaje Perine had 72 more carries than AJ Dillon, 84 to 12.

Samaje Perine had 14 more catches than AJ Dillon, 17 to 3.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 12 percent.

This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 16 percent.