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Should I start Zach Charbonnet or CJ Donaldson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 23, 11:41 AM ET.

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  • : Zach Charbonnet: PUP to Questionable (Knee - ACL, Surgery) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Seahawks RB Zach Charbonnet activated off PUP list (ESPN)
  • : CJ Donaldson: Listed Questionable (Shoulder) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start CJ Donaldson: he has been on the field this season, 37 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. 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.

Zach Charbonnet

RB47 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Overall rank
152

CJ Donaldson

RB50 · NO · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-6

Overall rank
156

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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 Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 152nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on CJ Donaldson, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for CJ Donaldson is 3.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Zach Charbonnet's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

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 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 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.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for CJ Donaldson.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Both players in full

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