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Should I start Chase Brown or Kendre Miller in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 11:16 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

RB · CIN · at BAL

Market projects
14.2
fantasy pts
BAL D vs RB
18.5
6th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
61 of 100 at RB
Snap share
70%
Through Week 5
Target share
15%
Through Week 5
Sit

RB · NO · vs PIT

Market projects
8.9
fantasy pts
PIT D vs RB
20.4
15th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Rising
65 of 100 at RB
Snap share
30%
Through Week 6
Target share
4%
Through Week 6
Start Brown or Miller? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Chase Brown: 70 percent of the snaps and 56 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kendre Miller's 34 percent of the snaps and 49 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.

Should I drop Kendre Miller for Chase Brown?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Chase Brown projects 155 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.1 a game over 11 games), Kendre Miller 62 (6.2 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Chase Brown over Kendre Miller, 14.2 to 8.9 projected PPR points.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB13 · CIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Overall rank
22

RB15 · NO · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 2-3

Market-based projection
8.9 pts a game

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The gap

  • Board size301 draftable players

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 Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 22nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Chase Brown is 14.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kendre Miller's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 64th highest figure of the 196 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Chase Brown has been on the field for 70 percent of CIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 4 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 13 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 9 times for 10 yards, caught 11 of 11 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

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

Through Week 6, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 30 percent of NO snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 4 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 6 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 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 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 11.9 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Kendre Miller RB79.

Chase Brown had 185 more carries than Kendre Miller, 232 to 47.

Chase Brown had 64 more catches than Kendre Miller, 69 to 5.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 30 percent.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 65 percent against 39 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Kendre Miller in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Kendre Miller for Chase Brown?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Chase Brown projects 155 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.1 a game over 11 games), Kendre Miller 62 (6.2 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Chase Brown over Kendre Miller, 14.2 to 8.9 projected PPR points.

  • Should I drop Chase Brown for Kendre Miller?

    No. Keep Chase Brown: he projects 155 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (14.1 a game over 11 games), Kendre Miller 62 (6.2 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Chase Brown over Kendre Miller, 14.2 to 8.9 projected PPR points.

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