Should I start Brian Robinson Jr. or Van Jefferson in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 8:11 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Brian Robinson Jr.: 27 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Van Jefferson's 25 percent of the snaps and 10 percent of the targets. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB23 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Market-based projection
- 6.4 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 64
WR27 · WAS · bye 7
2025 vs anytime td line 1-15
- Market-based projection
- 3.9 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 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Van Jefferson, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Brian Robinson Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Van Jefferson's market-based projection is 3.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 210 players with a market-based projection.
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 9, Van Jefferson has been on the field for 25 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 8 targets have averaged 11.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against NYG he was not given the ball.
In Week 8 against PHI he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against LAR he caught 5 of 7 targets for 58 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 Van Jefferson played 16 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 4.4 a game, finishing WR88.
He caught 29 of 52 targets for 350 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 12.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Brian Robinson Jr. was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 Van Jefferson scored 4.4 PPR points a game and Brian Robinson Jr. 3.7, 0.7 a game between them.
Brian Robinson Jr. finished RB63 and Van Jefferson WR88, which are two different ladders.
Brian Robinson Jr. is a running back and Van Jefferson a wide receiver, 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 Van Jefferson in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
Brian Robinson Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Brian Robinson Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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