Should I start D'Andre Swift or Darren Waller in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on D'Andre Swift, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Darren Waller, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 5.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Darren Waller's market-based projection is 4.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

D'Andre Swift's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 60 percent of CHI snaps, taken 52 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 19 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against ATL he carried 16 times for 44 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 26 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against NE he carried 22 times for 78 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he carried 27 times for 69 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Darren Waller has been on the field for 48 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 9.4 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 50 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.

He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Darren Waller played 9 games and scored 88.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing TE33.

He caught 24 of 34 targets for 283 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 3.8 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 11.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 45 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

D'Andre Swift was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 D'Andre Swift scored 14.3 PPR points a game and Darren Waller 9.9, 4.4 a game between them.

D'Andre Swift finished RB15 and Darren Waller TE33, which are two different ladders.

D'Andre Swift is a running back and Darren Waller a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10 and Darren Waller in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

D'Andre Swift has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.