Should I start Austin Ekeler or Keaton Mitchell 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 Keaton Mitchell, and the board ranks him 202nd 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 Keaton Mitchell is 1.4 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.

Keaton Mitchell'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, Keaton Mitchell has been on the field for 31 percent of LAC snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against KC he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he carried 4 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against HOU he carried 7 times for 33 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 34 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 Keaton Mitchell played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB67.

He carried 59 times for 341 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 9 of 12 targets for 63 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 5.8 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Keaton Mitchell was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Austin Ekeler scored 6.6 PPR points a game and Keaton Mitchell 4.3, 2.3 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Keaton Mitchell RB67.

Keaton Mitchell had 45 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 59 to 14.

Keaton Mitchell had 4 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 9 to 5.

This season Keaton Mitchell holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 25 percent.

Their share of the carries this season is the same, 21 percent each.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 7, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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