Should I start Darnell Washington or Kaelon Black in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 1:21 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Start Darnell Washington: 64 percent of the snaps and 13 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kaelon Black's 31 percent of the snaps and 34 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.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
TE6 · PIT · bye 9
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- Market-based projection
- 7.2 pts a game
RB10 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 36
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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 Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaelon Black, and the board ranks him 36th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 7.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 32nd highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Kaelon Black is 8.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 5 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.
Kaelon Black's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 8, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 3 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have averaged 5.4 air yards.
In Week 6 against TB he caught 4 of 6 targets for 25 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against NO he caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 94 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Kaelon Black has been on the field for 29 percent of SF snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 3 of its 28 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 6 against WAS he carried 8 times for 34 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against ATL he carried 12 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for -4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 9 against LV he carried 11 times for 70 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.
He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.
That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Kaelon Black is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Side by side
Darnell Washington is a tight end and Kaelon Black a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Darnell Washington is off in Week 9 and Kaelon Black in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Kaelon Black has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
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