Chase Brown or George Pickens: who to draft first

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Chase Brown at 14.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 18 books. That is the 43rd highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

The player markets price George Pickens at 14.0 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 17 books. That is the 49th highest figure of the 182 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chase Brown: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 24th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 30.

Drafters have formed no consensus on George Pickens: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 25th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes 2QB: ADP 34; dynasty: ADP 2.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Chase Brown has been on the field for 72 percent of CIN snaps, taken 62 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 40 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 3 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against TB he carried 16 times for 56 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 1, George Pickens has been on the field for 84 percent of DAL snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 17.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against NYG he caught 3 of 6 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

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 George Pickens played 17 games and scored 291.9 PPR points, 17.2 a game, finishing WR5.

He caught 93 of 137 targets for 1429 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 21 red zone targets.

That came to 8.1 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 15.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 83 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 George Pickens scored 17.2 PPR points a game and Chase Brown 16.6, 0.5 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 and George Pickens WR5, which are two different ladders.

Chase Brown is a running back and George Pickens a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and George Pickens in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.6 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.