Should I start Corey Kiner or Jeremy McNichols in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jeremy McNichols, and the board ranks him 151st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 1.8 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.

The market-based projection for Jeremy McNichols is 1.4 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 8

Through Week 8, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 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 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.

In Week 8 against MIA he carried 7 times for 38 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Jeremy McNichols has been on the field for 19 percent of WAS snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 1 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 1.0 air yards.

In Week 6 against SF he carried 5 times for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he carried 5 times for 21 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 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 Jeremy McNichols played 17 games and scored 72.7 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB58.

He carried 44 times for 221 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 25 of 31 targets for 196 more yards.

That came to 2.6 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1-2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 33 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jeremy McNichols was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Jeremy McNichols scored 4.3 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 2.0 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Jeremy McNichols RB58.

Jeremy McNichols had 32 more carries than Corey Kiner, 44 to 12.

Jeremy McNichols had 23 more catches than Corey Kiner, 25 to 2.

This season Jeremy McNichols holds the bigger snap share, 19 percent against 13 percent.

This season Jeremy McNichols holds the bigger share of the carries, 24 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11 and Jeremy McNichols in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremy McNichols is listed as ir on the injury report.