Should I start Bo Nix or Samaje Perine in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 26th highest figure of the 216 players with a market-based projection.

Samaje Perine's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 122nd highest figure of the 216 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 202 times and thrown 4.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 202 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against SF he completed 25 of 42 passes for 214 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

Through Week 5, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 37 percent of CIN snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 13.4 a game between them.

Bo Nix finished QB7 and Samaje Perine RB57, which are two different ladders.

Bo Nix is a quarterback and Samaje Perine a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bo Nix is off in Week 10 and Samaje Perine in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

10.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.