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Should I start Brevyn Spann-Ford or Ray Davis in Week 8?

Updated Oct 29, 2:26 AM ET.

Start Brevyn Spann-Ford: 45 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Ray Davis's 12 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Ray Davis for Brevyn Spann-Ford?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Brevyn Spann-Ford projects 27 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.0 a game over 9 games), Ray Davis 11 (1.1 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

TE27 · DAL · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-7

Market-based projection
4.4 pts a game

RB48 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Overall rank
152

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brevyn Spann-Ford, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Brevyn Spann-Ford's market-based projection is 4.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 136th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 1.6 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Brevyn Spann-Ford has been on the field for 39 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 1 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 0 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 48 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.

In Week 5 against TB he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against GB he caught 4 of 5 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brevyn Spann-Ford played 17 games and scored 24.0 PPR points, 1.4 a game, finishing TE73.

He caught 9 of 13 targets for 90 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 0.8 targets a game, a 69 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

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

In 2025 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.

He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.

That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Ray Davis scored 3.8 PPR points a game and Brevyn Spann-Ford 1.4, 2.4 a game between them.

Brevyn Spann-Ford finished TE73 and Ray Davis RB61, which are two different ladders.

Brevyn Spann-Ford is a tight end and Ray Davis a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Ray Davis is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Brevyn Spann-Ford.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Ray Davis for Brevyn Spann-Ford?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Brevyn Spann-Ford projects 27 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.0 a game over 9 games), Ray Davis 11 (1.1 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Brevyn Spann-Ford for Ray Davis?

    No. Keep Brevyn Spann-Ford: he projects 27 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (3.0 a game over 9 games), Ray Davis 11 (1.1 a game over 10 games).

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