Should I start Chase Brown or D'Andre Swift in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

The market-based projections

Chase Brown's market-based projection is 16.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 9th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 6.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

D'Andre Swift'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, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 19 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 16 times for 44 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 26 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he carried 27 times for 69 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

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 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and D'Andre Swift 14.3, 2.3 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and D'Andre Swift RB15.

Chase Brown had 9 more carries than D'Andre Swift, 232 to 223.

Chase Brown had 35 more catches than D'Andre Swift, 69 to 34.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 71 percent against 60 percent.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 63 percent against 52 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and D'Andre Swift in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.