Deebo Samuel Sr. or Chuba Hubbard: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 10:11 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Chuba Hubbard, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR35 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market price
- 8.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB56 · CAR · on bye this week
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- Market price
- 16.0 pts a game Wk 4 price
- Overall rank
- 210
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 16
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size219 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chuba Hubbard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 210th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Deebo Samuel Sr. at 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Chuba Hubbard, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 60 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 4, Chuba Hubbard has been on the field for 77 percent of CAR snaps, taken 66 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 4 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have come 1.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 12 times for 53 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 3 against CLE he carried 19 times for 82 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 28 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DET he carried 20 times for 122 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Their 2025 seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.
In 2025 Chuba Hubbard played 15 games and scored 125.4 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB38.
He carried 134 times for 511 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 39 targets for 223 more yards.
That came to 8.9 carries a game at 3.8 yards a carry and 2.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Deebo Samuel Sr. is a wide receiver and Chuba Hubbard a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Deebo Samuel Sr. is off in Week 8 and Chuba Hubbard in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Chuba Hubbard has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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