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Should I start Travis Etienne Jr. or Cam Skattebo in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 8:11 AM ET.

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Start Travis Etienne Jr.: 51 percent of the snaps and 38 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Cam Skattebo's 45 percent of the snaps and 42 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 · NO · on bye this week

2025 vs rush yds line 9-8

Overall rank
232

RB · NYG · on bye this week

2026 vs carries line 4-3

Market-based projection
7.0 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
234

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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 Travis Etienne Jr., and the board ranks him 232nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cam Skattebo, and the board ranks him 234th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

No season market is posted for Cam Skattebo, 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 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Cam Skattebo has been on the field for 54 percent of NYG snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 1.8 air yards.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 13 times for 59 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against HOU he carried 17 times for 124 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Travis Etienne Jr. played 17 games and scored 253.9 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing RB10.

He carried 260 times for 1107 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 52 targets for 292 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Cam Skattebo played 8 games and scored 127.7 PPR points, 16.0 a game, finishing RB37.

He carried 101 times for 410 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 24 of 32 targets for 207 more yards.

That came to 12.6 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Travis Etienne Jr. was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Cam Skattebo scored 16.0 PPR points a game and Travis Etienne Jr. 14.9, 1.0 a game between them.

Travis Etienne Jr. finished RB10 that year and Cam Skattebo RB37.

Travis Etienne Jr. had 159 more carries than Cam Skattebo, 260 to 101.

Travis Etienne Jr. had 12 more catches than Cam Skattebo, 36 to 24.

This season Cam Skattebo holds the bigger snap share, 54 percent against 51 percent.

This season Cam Skattebo holds the bigger share of the carries, 50 percent against 38 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.

Cam Skattebo is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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