Should I start Chase Brown or Quinshon Judkins in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 9th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 10th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Chase Brown's market-based projection is 15.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 226 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Quinshon Judkins is 15.9 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 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.

Quinshon Judkins'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, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 55 percent of CLE snaps, taken 62 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 7 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 44 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TEN he carried 17 times for 96 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against PIT he carried 11 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 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 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 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 Quinshon Judkins 11.3, 5.3 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Quinshon Judkins RB26.

Chase Brown had 2 more carries than Quinshon Judkins, 232 to 230.

Chase Brown had 43 more catches than Quinshon Judkins, 69 to 26.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 71 percent against 55 percent.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 63 percent against 62 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Quinshon Judkins in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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