Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Samaje Perine in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 80th 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.

Samaje Perine's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 119th 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 so far

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 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 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 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.

Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 1.5 a game between them.

Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 that year and Samaje Perine RB57.

Brian Robinson Jr. had 8 more carries than Samaje Perine, 92 to 84.

Samaje Perine had 9 more catches than Brian Robinson Jr., 17 to 8.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 37 percent against 31 percent.

This season Brian Robinson Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 31 percent against 25 percent.

Byes and availability

Brian Robinson Jr. is off in Week 11 and Samaje Perine in Week 6, 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.