Should I start Austin Ekeler or Zach Charbonnet in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Austin Ekeler, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Austin Ekeler's market-based projection is 6.4 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 Zach Charbonnet is 3.8 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.

Zach Charbonnet'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, Zach Charbonnet has been on the field for 47 percent of SEA snaps, taken 45 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 0.2 air yards.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 6 times for 23 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against ARI he carried 16 times for 77 yards, caught 1 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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 14 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Austin Ekeler 6.6, 4.8 a game between them.

Austin Ekeler finished RB103 that year and Zach Charbonnet RB24.

Zach Charbonnet had 170 more carries than Austin Ekeler, 184 to 14.

Zach Charbonnet had 15 more catches than Austin Ekeler, 20 to 5.

This season Zach Charbonnet holds the bigger snap share, 47 percent against 25 percent.

This season Zach Charbonnet holds the bigger share of the carries, 45 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

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