Should I start Matthew Golden or Blake Corum in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Matthew Golden, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 29th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Matthew Golden's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 39th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 13.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 84 percent of GB snaps, drawn 27 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 29 of the offence's 88 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 82 targets have averaged 14.2 air yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he caught 6 of 13 targets for 104 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against DET he caught 6 of 12 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CAR he caught 7 of 13 targets for 79 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Blake Corum has been on the field for 30 percent of LAR snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 39 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against ARI he carried 9 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LV he carried 17 times for 93 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against LAC he carried 11 times for 73 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.

He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 50 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 8-9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

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

Blake Corum was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Blake Corum scored 7.2 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 2.2 a game between them.

Matthew Golden finished WR89 and Blake Corum RB40, which are two different ladders.

Matthew Golden is a wide receiver and Blake Corum a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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