Should I start Austin Ekeler or Tyler Allgeier 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 Tyler Allgeier, and the board ranks him 121st 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 Tyler Allgeier is 3.0 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.

Tyler Allgeier'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, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 55 percent of ARI snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 95 third down targets, had 5 of its 32 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 58 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against DEN he carried 8 times for 19 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against DAL he carried 11 times for 147 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 44 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 9 against SEA he carried 17 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 0 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 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tyler Allgeier was available for 15 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyler Allgeier scored 7.2 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 0.7 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Tyler Allgeier RB39.

Tyler Allgeier had 129 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 143 to 14.

Tyler Allgeier had 9 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 14 to 5.

This season Tyler Allgeier holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 25 percent.

This season Tyler Allgeier holds the bigger share of the carries, 40 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Austin Ekeler is off in Week 7 and Tyler Allgeier in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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