Should I start Tyrone Tracy Jr. or CJ Donaldson in Week 7?
Updated Oct 21, 6:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
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Start CJ Donaldson: 37 percent of the snaps and 18 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s 25 percent of the snaps and 14 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB27 · NYG · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 6.3 pts a game
RB · NO · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-6
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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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 Tyrone Tracy Jr., and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry CJ Donaldson at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.
No season market is posted for CJ Donaldson, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 6
Through Week 6, Tyrone Tracy Jr. has been on the field for 15 percent of NYG snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.
In Week 4 against ARI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against WAS he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NO he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 27 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Through Week 6, CJ Donaldson has been on the field for 28 percent of NO snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 37 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 1.2 air yards.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 4 times for 13 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NYG he carried 6 times for 39 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Tyrone Tracy Jr. played 15 games and scored 160.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing RB28.
He carried 176 times for 740 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 48 targets for 288 more yards.
That came to 11.7 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
CJ Donaldson is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger snap share, 28 percent against 15 percent.
This season CJ Donaldson holds the bigger share of the carries, 11 percent against 8 percent.
Byes and availability
Tyrone Tracy Jr. is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for CJ Donaldson.
What would change the answer
CJ Donaldson has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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