Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Blake Corum in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 40th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Blake Corum, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Zach Charbonnet's market-based projection is 10.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 56th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Blake Corum is 3.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

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, Zach Charbonnet has taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 6 times for 23 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 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 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Blake Corum 7.2, 4.1 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 that year and Blake Corum RB40.

Zach Charbonnet had 39 more carries than Blake Corum, 184 to 145.

Zach Charbonnet had 12 more catches than Blake Corum, 20 to 8.

This season Blake Corum holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 32 percent.

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.