Should I start Austin Ekeler or Bijan Robinson in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 37th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bijan Robinson, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Bijan Robinson is 6.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Austin Ekeler has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against LAR he carried 8 times for 16 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Bijan Robinson has been on the field for 73 percent of ATL snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 44 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 8 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 40 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against SF he carried 20 times for 63 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TB he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against CIN he carried 19 times for 100 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 47 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Austin Ekeler played 2 games and scored 13.1 PPR points, 6.6 a game, finishing RB103.

He carried 14 times for 43 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 7 targets for 38 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 3.1 yards a carry and 2-3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bijan Robinson played 17 games and scored 370.8 PPR points, 21.8 a game, finishing RB2.

He carried 287 times for 1478 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 79 of 103 targets for 820 more yards.

That came to 16.9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 4.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bijan Robinson was available for 15 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Bijan Robinson scored 21.8 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 15.3 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Bijan Robinson RB2.

Bijan Robinson had 273 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 287 to 14.

Bijan Robinson had 74 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 79 to 5.

This season Bijan Robinson holds the bigger snap share, 73 percent against 25 percent.

This season Bijan Robinson holds the bigger share of the carries, 67 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Austin Ekeler is off in Week 7 and Bijan Robinson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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