Should I start Mike Washington Jr. or Chris Brooks in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 7:01 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Chris Brooks: 35 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Mike Washington Jr.'s 22 percent of the snaps and 30 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 · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 276
RB · GB · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 286
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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 Mike Washington Jr., and the board ranks him 276th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Chris Brooks, and the board ranks him 286th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Mike Washington Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Chris Brooks, 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 6, Mike Washington Jr. has been on the field for 20 percent of LV snaps, taken 23 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 36 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against KC he carried 9 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against NE he carried 1 time for 5 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against BUF he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
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.
Their 2025 seasons
Mike Washington Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Chris Brooks holds the bigger snap share, 40 percent against 20 percent.
This season Mike Washington Jr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 23 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Mike Washington Jr. is off in Week 13 and Chris Brooks in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Chris Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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