Should I start Corey Kiner or Jacob Saylors in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 181st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 0.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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 Jacob Saylors is 0.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 6, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 12 percent of NE snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

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

In Week 4 against BUF he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 3, Jacob Saylors has been on the field for 3 percent of DET snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 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 Jacob Saylors played 16 games and scored 1.1 PPR points, 0.1 a game, finishing RB136.

He carried 2 times for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.1 carries a game at 6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacob Saylors was available for 12 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Corey Kiner scored 2.3 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 2.3 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Jacob Saylors RB136.

Corey Kiner had 10 more carries than Jacob Saylors, 12 to 2.

Corey Kiner had 2 more catches than Jacob Saylors, 2 to 0.

This season Corey Kiner holds the bigger snap share, 12 percent against 3 percent.

This season Corey Kiner holds the bigger share of the carries, 17 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11 and Jacob Saylors in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.