Should I start Chase Brown or Chuba Hubbard in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 11th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chuba Hubbard, and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Chase Brown's market-based projection is 16.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Chuba Hubbard is 4.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Chuba Hubbard's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Chase Brown has been on the field for 71 percent of CIN snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 42 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 13 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 11 times for 39 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against TEN he carried 12 times for 55 yards, caught 8 of 9 targets for 46 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Chuba Hubbard has been on the field for 80 percent of CAR snaps, taken 72 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 35 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 7 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against PHI he carried 28 times for 120 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 1 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against TB he carried 7 times for 33 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he carried 22 times for 81 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chuba Hubbard played 15 games and scored 125.4 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB38.

He carried 134 times for 511 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 39 targets for 223 more yards.

That came to 8.9 carries a game at 3.8 yards a carry and 2.0 catches a game.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Chuba Hubbard 8.4, 8.3 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Chuba Hubbard RB38.

Chase Brown had 98 more carries than Chuba Hubbard, 232 to 134.

Chase Brown had 39 more catches than Chuba Hubbard, 69 to 30.

This season Chuba Hubbard holds the bigger snap share, 80 percent against 71 percent.

This season Chuba Hubbard holds the bigger share of the carries, 72 percent against 63 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Chuba Hubbard in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Chuba Hubbard has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.