Should I start Tyjae Spears or Courtland Sutton in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 85th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Courtland Sutton, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyjae Spears is 5.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 50 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Courtland Sutton's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Tyjae Spears's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Courtland Sutton has been on the field for 78 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have averaged 10.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 6 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against SEA he caught 2 of 3 targets for 19 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Courtland Sutton played 17 games and scored 219.7 PPR points, 12.9 a game, finishing WR13.

He caught 74 of 124 targets for 1017 yards and 7 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 7.3 targets a game, a 60 percent catch rate and 13.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 86 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Courtland Sutton was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Courtland Sutton scored 12.9 PPR points a game and Tyjae Spears 8.6, 4.3 a game between them.

Tyjae Spears finished RB44 and Courtland Sutton WR13, which are two different ladders.

Tyjae Spears is a running back and Courtland Sutton a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9 and Courtland Sutton in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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