Should I start Bucky Irving or Jonathon Brooks in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 12:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Bucky Irving: 60 percent of the snaps and 55 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jonathon Brooks's 25 percent of the snaps and 21 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.
RB · TB · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 14.0 pts a game Wk 9 price
- Overall rank
- 269
RB · CAR · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 275
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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 Bucky Irving, and the board ranks him 269th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonathon Brooks, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Bucky Irving, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jonathon Brooks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 9, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 63 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 45 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 69 third down targets, had 8 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 51 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against CAR he carried 24 times for 106 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 8 against ATL he carried 27 times for 170 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against CHI he carried 20 times for 97 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 28 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Through Week 2, Jonathon Brooks has been on the field for 25 percent of CAR snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.
He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.
That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Jonathon Brooks in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 63 percent against 25 percent.
This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 58 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Jonathon Brooks in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Jonathon Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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