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Should I start Ollie Gordon II or Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 9:31 PM ET.

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Start Ollie Gordon II: 71 percent of the snaps and 53 percent of the carries 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 Ollie Gordon II?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Ollie Gordon II projects 110 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.0 a game over 11 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.

RB21 · MIA · bye 6

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Market-based projection
9.6 pts a game

RB28 · ATL · bye 11

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Overall rank
79

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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 Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 84th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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.

Brian Robinson Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 48 percent of MIA snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 5 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 18 times for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Brian Robinson Jr. scored 3.7 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 0.5 a game between them.

Ollie Gordon II finished RB68 that year and Brian Robinson Jr. RB63.

Brian Robinson Jr. had 22 more carries than Ollie Gordon II, 92 to 70.

Brian Robinson Jr. had 1 more catches than Ollie Gordon II, 8 to 7.

This season Ollie Gordon II holds the bigger snap share, 48 percent against 31 percent.

This season Ollie Gordon II holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 31 percent.

Byes and availability

Ollie Gordon II is off in Week 6 and Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 11, 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 Ollie Gordon II?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Ollie Gordon II projects 110 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.0 a game over 11 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.

  • Should I drop Ollie Gordon II for Brian Robinson Jr.?

    No. Keep Ollie Gordon II: he projects 110 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.0 a game over 11 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 44 (4.4 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.

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