Should I start Chase Brown or Kyler Murray in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 76th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kyler Murray, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 18.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Chase Brown is 4.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Kyler Murray's market-based projection is 17.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 13th highest figure of the 199 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 through Week 7

Through Week 7, Chase Brown has been on the field for 71 percent of CIN snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 4 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

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

Through Week 7, Kyler Murray has been on the field for 84 percent of MIN snaps, dropped back 151 times and thrown 6.9 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 151 dropbacks and scrambled 15 times.

In Week 4 against MIA he completed 27 of 37 passes for 247 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 21 yards.

In Week 5 against NO he completed 24 of 29 passes for 229 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 7 times for 54 yards.

In Week 7 against IND he completed 14 of 24 passes for 150 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 41 yards.

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 Kyler Murray played 5 games and scored 80.8 PPR points, 16.2 a game, finishing QB38.

He threw for 962 yards on 161 attempts with 6 touchdowns and 3 interceptions, and ran for 173 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 32.2 attempts a game at 6.0 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 99 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Kyler Murray 16.2, 0.5 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 and Kyler Murray QB38, which are two different ladders.

Chase Brown is a running back and Kyler Murray a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

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.