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Should I start Brian Robinson or Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 6?

Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Updated Oct 16, 10:16 PM ET.

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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RB32 · ATL · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 4-1

Overall rank
95
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
10

WR39 · SF · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 3-2

Market-based projection
8.8 pts a game Wk 5 price
Overall rank
97
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
14

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size317 draftable players

Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Brian Robinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 95th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Brian Robinson is 8.7 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.

No season market is posted for Deebo Samuel Sr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Brian Robinson has been on the field for 33 percent of ATL snaps, taken 32 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against GB he carried 10 times for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Through Week 5, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 57 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 2.6 air yards.

In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SEA he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brian Robinson 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.

The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.

Side by side

Brian Robinson is a running back and Deebo Samuel Sr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Brian Robinson is off in Week 11 and Deebo Samuel Sr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Deebo Samuel Sr. is listed as out on the injury report.

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