Should I start Tank Bigsby or Christian McCaffrey in Week 8?
Updated Nov 2, 9:36 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Christian McCaffrey: 72 percent of the snaps and 46 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tank Bigsby's 30 percent of the snaps and 35 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.
RB70 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 2-2
- Overall rank
- 244
RB · SF · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 2-5
- Market-based projection
- 22.6 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 256
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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 Tank Bigsby, and the board ranks him 244th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Christian McCaffrey, and the board ranks him 256th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 7.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Tank Bigsby, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Christian McCaffrey, 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, Tank Bigsby has been on the field for 26 percent of PHI snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against TEN he carried 13 times for 33 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAR he carried 14 times for 55 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Christian McCaffrey has been on the field for 69 percent of SF snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 9 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 12 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 42 targets have averaged 2.5 air yards.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 11 times for 68 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against WAS he carried 16 times for 64 yards, caught 9 of 10 targets for 53 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 7 against ATL he carried 7 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 61 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tank Bigsby played 17 games and scored 53.8 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB69.
He carried 63 times for 356 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 32 more yards.
That came to 3.7 carries a game at 5.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Christian McCaffrey played 17 games and scored 416.6 PPR points, 24.5 a game, finishing RB1.
He carried 311 times for 1202 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 102 of 129 targets for 924 more yards.
That came to 18.3 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 6.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 83 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Christian McCaffrey scored 24.5 PPR points a game and Tank Bigsby 3.2, 21.3 a game between them.
Tank Bigsby finished RB69 that year and Christian McCaffrey RB1.
Christian McCaffrey had 248 more carries than Tank Bigsby, 311 to 63.
Christian McCaffrey had 99 more catches than Tank Bigsby, 102 to 3.
This season Christian McCaffrey holds the bigger snap share, 69 percent against 26 percent.
This season Christian McCaffrey holds the bigger share of the carries, 46 percent against 28 percent.
Byes and availability
Tank Bigsby is off in Week 10 and Christian McCaffrey in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Tank Bigsby is listed as ir on the injury report.
Christian McCaffrey is listed as questionable on the injury report.
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