Should I start Chris Brooks or Kendre Miller in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:31 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kendre Miller: 39 percent of the snaps and 54 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Chris Brooks's 35 percent of the snaps and 16 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.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB · GB · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 277
RB · NO · on bye this week
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- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 287
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The gap
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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 Chris Brooks, and the board ranks him 277th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 287th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Chris Brooks, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kendre Miller, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Chris Brooks has been on the field for 40 percent of GB snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against NYJ he carried 4 times for 11 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ATL he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against TB he carried 4 times for 30 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
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.
In Week 7 against PIT he carried 8 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Chris Brooks played 17 games and scored 32.7 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing RB81.
He carried 27 times for 106 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 13 of 17 targets for 91 more yards.
That came to 1.6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 18 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.
Chris Brooks was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Kendre Miller scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Chris Brooks 1.9, 2.8 a game between them.
Chris Brooks finished RB81 that year and Kendre Miller RB79.
Kendre Miller had 20 more carries than Chris Brooks, 47 to 27.
Chris Brooks had 8 more catches than Kendre Miller, 13 to 5.
This season Chris Brooks holds the bigger snap share, 40 percent against 31 percent.
This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger share of the carries, 40 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Chris Brooks is off in Week 11 and Kendre Miller in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
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