Colby Parkinson or Kendre Miller: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Colby Parkinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Kendre Miller: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Colby Parkinson at 5.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 151st highest figure of the 211 players the market prices.

The market has Kendre Miller at 5.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kendre Miller's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 3, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 61 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 1.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against SF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NYG he caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

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

Through Week 4, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 25 percent of NO snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 0.2 air yards.

In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 3 against LV he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against ATL he carried 6 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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 9.5 yards a catch.

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

In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Colby Parkinson was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colby Parkinson scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 3.9 a game between them.

Colby Parkinson finished TE17 and Kendre Miller RB79, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

Kendre Miller is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.