J.K. Dobbins or Blake Corum: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on J.K. Dobbins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 93rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price J.K. Dobbins at 9.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.

The market has Blake Corum at 7.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Blake Corum's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 40 percent of DEN snaps, taken 53 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 4 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he carried 10 times for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 17 times for 49 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 11 times for 40 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Blake Corum has been on the field for 27 percent of LAR snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NYG he carried 12 times for 79 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against DEN he carried 6 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PHI he carried 5 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.

He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Blake Corum played 17 games and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.

He carried 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 more yards.

That came to 8.5 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Blake Corum was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 4.4 a game between them.

J.K. Dobbins finished RB43 that year and Blake Corum RB40.

J.K. Dobbins had 8 more carries than Blake Corum, 153 to 145.

J.K. Dobbins had 3 more catches than Blake Corum, 11 to 8.

This season J.K. Dobbins holds the bigger snap share, 40 percent against 27 percent.

This season J.K. Dobbins holds the bigger share of the carries, 53 percent against 33 percent.

Byes and availability

J.K. Dobbins is off in Week 10 and Blake Corum in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Blake Corum is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.