Should I start Corey Kiner or Trevor Etienne in Week 9?
Updated Nov 5, 8:06 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Start Corey Kiner: 16 percent of the snaps and 26 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Trevor Etienne's 12 percent of the snaps and 11 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
Should I drop Trevor Etienne for Corey Kiner?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Corey Kiner projects 23 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (2.9 a game over 8 games), Trevor Etienne 11 (1.2 a game over 9 games).
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB51 · NE · bye 11
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- Market-based projection
- 6.6 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 164
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2025 vs anytime td line 0-17
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Corey Kiner, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Trevor Etienne at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
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.
No season market is posted for Trevor Etienne, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
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, Trevor Etienne has been on the field for 12 percent of CAR snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 21 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.
In Week 6 against PHI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against TB he carried 6 times for 8 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against GB he carried 1 time for 1 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 Trevor Etienne played 17 games and scored 11.7 PPR points, 0.7 a game, finishing RB104.
He carried 20 times for 94 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 13 more yards.
That came to 1.2 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 6 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Trevor Etienne was available for 13 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Corey Kiner scored 2.3 PPR points a game and Trevor Etienne 0.7, 1.6 a game between them.
Corey Kiner finished RB112 that year and Trevor Etienne RB104.
Trevor Etienne had 8 more carries than Corey Kiner, 20 to 12.
Trevor Etienne had 1 more catches than Corey Kiner, 3 to 2.
This season Corey Kiner holds the bigger snap share, 13 percent against 12 percent.
This season Corey Kiner holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 11 percent.
Byes and availability
Corey Kiner is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Trevor Etienne.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Trevor Etienne for Corey Kiner?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Corey Kiner projects 23 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (2.9 a game over 8 games), Trevor Etienne 11 (1.2 a game over 9 games).
Should I drop Corey Kiner for Trevor Etienne?
No. Keep Corey Kiner: he projects 23 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (2.9 a game over 8 games), Trevor Etienne 11 (1.2 a game over 9 games).
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