Should I start Blake Corum or Troy Franklin in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Troy Franklin, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 4.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Troy Franklin's market-based projection is 3.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 88th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 8, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 44 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 15.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against KC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 3.2 a game between them.

Blake Corum finished RB40 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

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

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.