Should I start Chase Brown or Rhamondre Stevenson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chase Brown, and the board ranks him 23rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rhamondre Stevenson, and the board ranks him 27th 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.

Rhamondre Stevenson's market-based projection is 13.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 40th highest figure of the 194 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, Rhamondre Stevenson has been on the field for 63 percent of NE snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 3 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 19 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BUF he carried 13 times for 47 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 13 times for 64 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 14 times for 36 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 Rhamondre Stevenson played 14 games and scored 178.8 PPR points, 12.8 a game, finishing RB25.

He carried 130 times for 603 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 32 of 37 targets for 345 more yards.

That came to 9.3 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chase Brown was available for 3 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Rhamondre Stevenson 12.8, 3.9 a game between them.

Chase Brown finished RB7 that year and Rhamondre Stevenson RB25.

Chase Brown had 102 more carries than Rhamondre Stevenson, 232 to 130.

Chase Brown had 37 more catches than Rhamondre Stevenson, 69 to 32.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 63 percent.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 65 percent against 40 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6 and Rhamondre Stevenson in Week 11, 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.