Should I start Rico Dowdle or Corey Kiner in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 143rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Corey Kiner: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 168th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 129th highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 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 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 11 percent of NE snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

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

In Week 3 against JAX he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Rico Dowdle was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 10.4 a game between them.

Rico Dowdle finished RB18 that year and Corey Kiner RB112.

Rico Dowdle had 224 more carries than Corey Kiner, 236 to 12.

Rico Dowdle had 37 more catches than Corey Kiner, 39 to 2.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 11 percent.

This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Corey Kiner.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Corey Kiner is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.