Should I start Braelon Allen or Dylan Sampson in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Braelon Allen, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Braelon Allen is 9.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dylan Sampson's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Braelon Allen's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Braelon Allen has been on the field for 65 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against MIA he carried 17 times for 104 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 30 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LV he carried 21 times for 147 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against KC he carried 8 times for 33 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Dylan Sampson has been on the field for 55 percent of CLE snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against TEN he carried 6 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PIT he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NO he carried 8 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Braelon Allen played 4 games and scored 15.3 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB100.

He carried 18 times for 76 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 17 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.

That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dylan Sampson was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Braelon Allen 3.8, 2.0 a game between them.

Braelon Allen finished RB100 that year and Dylan Sampson RB55.

Dylan Sampson had 47 more carries than Braelon Allen, 65 to 18.

Dylan Sampson had 31 more catches than Braelon Allen, 33 to 2.

This season Braelon Allen holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 55 percent.

This season Braelon Allen holds the bigger share of the carries, 54 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

Braelon Allen is off in Week 13 and Dylan Sampson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Braelon Allen has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.