Should I start Austin Ekeler or Justice Hill in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Justice Hill, and the board ranks him 189th 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 36th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Justice Hill is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Justice Hill'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, Justice Hill has been on the field for 44 percent of BAL snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 72 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 49 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against CIN he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against BUF he carried 3 times for 15 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 20 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against JAX he carried 9 times for 85 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 7 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 Justice Hill played 10 games and scored 65.2 PPR points, 6.5 a game, finishing RB60.

He carried 18 times for 93 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 21 of 27 targets for 169 more yards.

That came to 1.8 carries a game at 5.2 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 37 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Justice Hill was available for 8 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Justice Hill 6.5, 0.0 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Justice Hill RB60.

Justice Hill had 4 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 18 to 14.

Justice Hill had 16 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 21 to 5.

This season Justice Hill holds the bigger snap share, 44 percent against 25 percent.

This season Austin Ekeler holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 13 percent.

Byes and availability

Austin Ekeler is off in Week 7 and Justice Hill in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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