Should I start Dylan Sampson or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 131st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 108th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

Dylan Sampson'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 Dylan Sampson this season.

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.

That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 2.8 a game between them.

Dylan Sampson finished RB55 and Colby Parkinson TE17, which are two different ladders.

Dylan Sampson is a running back and Colby Parkinson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Dylan Sampson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.