Should I start Audric Estime or Trey McBride in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Audric Estime, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Trey McBride, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 31.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Audric Estime is 3.1 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.

The market-based projection for Trey McBride is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Audric Estime has been on the field for 0 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 2 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against BAL he carried 9 times for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against CLE he carried 15 times for 72 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Trey McBride has been on the field for 91 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 23 of the offence's 95 third down targets, had 5 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 58 two minute targets.

His 94 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 10 of 13 targets for 111 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against DAL he caught 7 of 8 targets for 72 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against SEA he caught 7 of 8 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Audric Estime played 7 games and scored 48.1 PPR points, 6.9 a game, finishing RB71.

He carried 46 times for 198 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 12 of 13 targets for 103 more yards.

That came to 6.6 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 31 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Trey McBride played 17 games and scored 315.9 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing TE1.

He caught 126 of 169 targets for 1239 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 32 red zone targets.

That came to 9.9 targets a game, a 75 percent catch rate and 9.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 91 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Trey McBride was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Trey McBride scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Audric Estime 6.9, 11.7 a game between them.

Audric Estime finished RB71 and Trey McBride TE1, which are two different ladders.

Audric Estime is a running back and Trey McBride a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Audric Estime is off in Week 8 and Trey McBride in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.