Should I start Corey Kiner or Dylan Sampson in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 192nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 1.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 Dylan Sampson is 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 12 percent of NE snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 6 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he carried 11 times for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CHI he carried 4 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Dylan Sampson has been on the field for 46 percent of CLE snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 3.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against TEN he carried 6 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Corey Kiner played 4 games and scored 9.3 PPR points, 2.3 a game, finishing RB112.

He carried 12 times for 58 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 3.0 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 7 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Dylan Sampson was available for 11 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 3.5 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Dylan Sampson RB55.

Dylan Sampson had 53 more carries than Corey Kiner, 65 to 12.

Dylan Sampson had 31 more catches than Corey Kiner, 33 to 2.

This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 12 percent.

This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger share of the carries, 21 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.