Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Chig Okonkwo in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 8:21 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 23, 5:13 PM ET: Zach Charbonnet: Questionable to Out (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 2:43 PM ET: Zach Charbonnet: PUP to Questionable (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 2:26 PM ET: Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet activated off PUP list (ESPN)

Start Chig Okonkwo: he has been on the field this season, 68 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. 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 Zach Charbonnet for Chig Okonkwo?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Chig Okonkwo projects 78 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (7.8 a game over 10 games), Zach Charbonnet 36 (4.0 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed questionable.

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

Zach Charbonnet

RB36 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection: 10.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 105

Chig Okonkwo

TE15 · WAS · bye 7

2025 vs rec yds line 7-5

Market-based projection: 8.1 pts a game

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The gap

Board size305 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 Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Chig Okonkwo, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 4.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

Chig Okonkwo's market-based projection is 8.1 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 6, Chig Okonkwo has been on the field for 65 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 6.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 2 of 4 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 4 of 6 targets for 60 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 7 of 7 targets for 69 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chig Okonkwo played 17 games and scored 124.0 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing TE21.

He caught 56 of 79 targets for 560 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 4.6 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Chig Okonkwo was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Chig Okonkwo 7.3, 4.0 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Chig Okonkwo TE21, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Chig Okonkwo a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Chig Okonkwo in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Zach Charbonnet 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 Zach Charbonnet for Chig Okonkwo?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Chig Okonkwo projects 78 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (7.8 a game over 10 games), Zach Charbonnet 36 (4.0 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed questionable.
Should I drop Chig Okonkwo for Zach Charbonnet?
No. Keep Chig Okonkwo: he projects 78 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (7.8 a game over 10 games), Zach Charbonnet 36 (4.0 a game over 9 games). Zach Charbonnet is listed questionable.