Should I start Corey Kiner or Austin Ekeler in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 30th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 14.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 4 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIA he carried 7 times for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against GB he carried 8 times for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Corey Kiner was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 4.2 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Austin Ekeler RB103.

Austin Ekeler had 2 more carries than Corey Kiner, 14 to 12.

Austin Ekeler had 3 more catches than Corey Kiner, 5 to 2.

This season Austin Ekeler holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 13 percent.

This season Austin Ekeler holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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