Tony Pollard or Blake Corum: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tony Pollard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st 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 Tony Pollard at 9.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 95th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The market has Blake Corum at 7.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 16 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, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 53 percent of TEN snaps, taken 60 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 1.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against PHI he carried 14 times for 64 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 1 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 17 times for 74 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 16 times for 48 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 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 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 3.7 a game between them.

Tony Pollard finished RB23 that year and Blake Corum RB40.

Tony Pollard had 97 more carries than Blake Corum, 242 to 145.

Tony Pollard had 25 more catches than Blake Corum, 33 to 8.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger snap share, 53 percent against 27 percent.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger share of the carries, 60 percent against 33 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Tony Pollard is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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.