Should I start Corey Kiner or Tony Pollard in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 33rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Corey Kiner is 13.3 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.

Tony Pollard's market-based projection is 12.3 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 44th highest figure of the 212 players with a market-based 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 9, Corey Kiner has been on the field for 13 percent of NE snaps, taken 20 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 65 third down targets, had 1 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

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

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.

In Week 9 against GB he carried 8 times for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 8, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 62 percent of TEN snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 10 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against CLE he carried 25 times for 129 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against CIN he carried 21 times for 117 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tony Pollard was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Corey Kiner 2.3, 8.6 a game between them.

Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Tony Pollard RB23.

Tony Pollard had 230 more carries than Corey Kiner, 242 to 12.

Tony Pollard had 31 more catches than Corey Kiner, 33 to 2.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 13 percent.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger share of the carries, 71 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

Corey Kiner is off in Week 11 and Tony Pollard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Corey Kiner has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.