Should I start Brock Purdy or Rico Dowdle in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Brock Purdy's market-based projection is 18.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 12th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Brock Purdy, and the board ranks him 64th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Brock Purdy has been on the field for 98 percent of SF snaps, dropped back 190 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 23 of 190 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

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.

In Week 6 against WAS he completed 21 of 29 passes for 264 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

Through Week 6, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 36 percent of PIT snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Brock Purdy scored 20.8 PPR points a game and Rico Dowdle 12.7, 8.1 a game between them.

Brock Purdy finished QB24 and Rico Dowdle RB18, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Brock Purdy is off in Week 8 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

10.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.