Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Courtland Sutton in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Brian Robinson Jr.: Listed Questionable (Hamstring) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Courtland Sutton: 77 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Brian Robinson Jr.'s 27 percent of the snaps and 32 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 Brian Robinson Jr. for Courtland Sutton?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Courtland Sutton projects 91 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
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- Market-based projection
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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 Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Courtland Sutton, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market has Brian Robinson Jr. at 6.7 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.
Courtland Sutton's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 92nd highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.
Brian Robinson Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Brian Robinson Jr. has been on the field for 31 percent of ATL snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against NO he carried 14 times for 62 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against BAL he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against CHI he carried 2 times for 1 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Through Week 6, Courtland Sutton has been on the field for 78 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.
In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 6 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Brian Robinson Jr. played 17 games and scored 62.5 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing RB63.
He carried 92 times for 400 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 12 targets for 25 more yards.
That came to 5.4 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Courtland Sutton played 17 games and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.
He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.
That came to 7.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Courtland Sutton scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 9.2 a game between them.
Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Courtland Sutton WR13, which are two different ladders.
Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back and Courtland Sutton a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Brian Robinson Jr. is off in Week 11 and Courtland Sutton in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Brian Robinson Jr. 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 Brian Robinson Jr. for Courtland Sutton?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Courtland Sutton projects 91 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
Should I drop Courtland Sutton for Brian Robinson Jr.?
No. Keep Courtland Sutton: he projects 91 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (9.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
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