Should I start Austin Ekeler or Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 9:21 AM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Brian Robinson Jr.: 27 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Austin Ekeler's 29 percent of the snaps and 28 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB11 · WAS · bye 7
- Market-based projection
- 6.5 pts a game
RB12 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Market-based projection
- 6.4 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 43
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The gap
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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 Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 43rd 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 20th highest figure of the 180 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for Brian Robinson Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
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 6, Brian Robinson Jr. has been on the field for 31 percent of ATL snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against CHI he carried 2 times for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
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 Brian Robinson Jr. played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.
He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.
That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 15 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 2.9 a game between them.
Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Brian Robinson Jr. RB63.
Brian Robinson Jr. had 78 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 92 to 14.
Brian Robinson Jr. had 3 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 8 to 5.
This season Brian Robinson Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 25 percent.
This season Brian Robinson Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 31 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Austin Ekeler is off in Week 7 and Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Brian Robinson Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 10 on the board
- Is Austin Ekeler playing Week 10?
- Is Brian Robinson Jr. playing Week 10?
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