Should I start Brock Purdy or Kendre Miller in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 6:16 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Brock Purdy: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kendre Miller's 24 percent of the snaps and 31 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 Kendre Miller for Brock Purdy?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), Kendre Miller 52 (5.2 a game over 10 games).

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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.

Brock Purdy

QB1 · SF · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 3-3

Market-based projection: 23.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 22

Kendre Miller

RB8 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Overall rank: 23

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The gap

Board size297 draftable players

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 Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 22nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Brock Purdy, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

The market-based projection for Kendre Miller is 11.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 97 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 156 times and thrown 7.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 20 of 156 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.

In Week 3 against ARI he completed 15 of 27 passes for 297 yards, threw 4 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 35 yards.

In Week 4 against DEN he completed 19 of 29 passes for 218 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 8 times for 31 yards.

In Week 5 against SEA he completed 19 of 29 passes for 189 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 8 yards.

Through Week 6, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 26 percent of NO snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 6 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Brock Purdy played 9 games and scored 187.4 PPR points, 20.8 a game, finishing QB24.

He threw for 2167 yards on 284 attempts with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 147 yards and 3 touchdowns.

That came to 31.6 attempts a game at 7.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Brock Purdy was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 16.1 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Kendre Miller RB79, which are two different ladders.

Brock Purdy is a quarterback and Kendre Miller a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Kendre Miller for Brock Purdy?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Brock Purdy projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), Kendre Miller 52 (5.2 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Brock Purdy for Kendre Miller?
No. Keep Brock Purdy: he projects 171 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (17.1 a game over 10 games), Kendre Miller 52 (5.2 a game over 10 games).