Should I drop Colby Parkinson for Samaje Perine?

Not on these numbers alone. Colby Parkinson projects 53 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (5.3 a game over 10 games) and Samaje Perine 50 (4.5 a game over 11 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

Should I start Samaje Perine or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 1:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Colby Parkinson: 56 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Samaje Perine's 39 percent of the snaps and 32 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.

Should I drop Samaje Perine for Colby Parkinson?

Not on these numbers alone. Samaje Perine projects 50 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (4.5 a game over 11 games) and Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Samaje Perine

RB47 · CIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Overall rank: 132

Colby Parkinson

TE21 · LAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 5.8 pts a game

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The gap

Board size309 draftable players

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 Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 134th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 1.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 37 percent of CIN snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 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 Samaje Perine 5.2, 3.5 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 and Colby Parkinson TE17, which are two different ladders.

Samaje Perine 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

Samaje Perine is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

Should I drop Samaje Perine for Colby Parkinson?
Not on these numbers alone. Samaje Perine projects 50 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (4.5 a game over 11 games) and Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.
Should I drop Colby Parkinson for Samaje Perine?
Not on these numbers alone. Colby Parkinson projects 53 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (5.3 a game over 10 games) and Samaje Perine 50 (4.5 a game over 11 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.