Should I start Corey Kiner or Julius Chestnut in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 163rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Julius Chestnut, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 0.7 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 Julius Chestnut is 0.7 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is 60 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 6

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Julius Chestnut this season.

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 Julius Chestnut played 17 games and scored 4.0 PPR points, 0.2 a game, finishing RB125.

He carried 11 times for 40 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.6 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Julius Chestnut was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Corey Kiner scored 2.3 PPR points a game and Julius Chestnut 0.2, 2.1 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Julius Chestnut RB125.

Corey Kiner had 1 more carries than Julius Chestnut, 12 to 11.

Corey Kiner had 2 more catches than Julius Chestnut, 2 to 0.

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Julius Chestnut.