Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Tyler Shough in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 10:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 21, 7:13 PM ET: Brian Robinson Jr.: Listed Questionable (Hamstring) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Tyler Shough: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 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 Tyler Shough?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Shough projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 43 (4.3 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.

Brian Robinson Jr.

RB28 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 4-2

Overall rank: 81

Tyler Shough

QB11 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Market-based projection: 17.2 pts a game

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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 Tyler Shough, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 24.

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.

Tyler Shough's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 20th 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, Tyler Shough has been on the field for 100 percent of NO snaps, dropped back 255 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 37 of 255 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.

In Week 4 against ATL he completed 30 of 48 passes for 286 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

In Week 5 against MIN he completed 16 of 25 passes for 96 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 6 against NYG he completed 16 of 30 passes for 144 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 33 yards.

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 Tyler Shough played 11 games and scored 164.0 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing QB26.

He threw for 2384 yards on 327 attempts with 10 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 186 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 29.7 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyler Shough scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 11.2 a game between them.

Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Tyler Shough QB26, which are two different ladders.

Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back and Tyler Shough a quarterback, 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 Tyler Shough in Week 8, 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 Tyler Shough?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Shough projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.
Should I drop Tyler Shough for Brian Robinson Jr.?
No. Keep Tyler Shough: he projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), Brian Robinson Jr. 43 (4.3 a game over 10 games). Brian Robinson Jr. is listed questionable.