Should I start Ray Davis or Brian Robinson Jr. in Week 8?
Updated Oct 29, 12:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Brian Robinson Jr.: 27 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Ray Davis's 12 percent of the snaps and 5 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.
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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.
RB48 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- 143
RB50 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 148
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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 Ray Davis, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Brian Robinson Jr., and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 1.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 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.
The market has Brian Robinson Jr. at 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Ray Davis's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LV he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
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 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.
He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.
That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.
He was on the field for 11 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 Ray Davis scored 3.8 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 0.1 a game between them.
Ray Davis finished RB61 that year and Brian Robinson Jr. RB63.
Brian Robinson Jr. had 34 more carries than Ray Davis, 92 to 58.
Ray Davis had 2 more catches than Brian Robinson Jr., 10 to 8.
This season Brian Robinson Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 11 percent.
This season Brian Robinson Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 31 percent against 3 percent.
Byes and availability
Ray Davis is off in Week 7 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.
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