Rico Dowdle or Blake Corum: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Blake Corum: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Rico Dowdle at 8.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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.

The player markets price Blake Corum at 6.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 135th highest figure of the 220 players the market prices.

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

This season so far

Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 5.5 a game between them.

Rico Dowdle finished RB18 that year and Blake Corum RB40.

Rico Dowdle had 91 more carries than Blake Corum, 236 to 145.

Rico Dowdle had 31 more catches than Blake Corum, 39 to 8.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 27 percent.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 33 percent.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Blake Corum in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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