Should I start Kendre Miller or Darnell Washington in Week 6?
Updated Oct 18, 10:51 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.
Start Darnell Washington: 70 percent of the snaps and 12 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kendre Miller's 24 percent of the snaps and 31 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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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.
RB41 · NO · bye 8
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- Market-based projection
- 7.0 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 139
TE26 · PIT · bye 9
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- Market-based projection
- 6.4 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 140
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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 Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Darnell Washington, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kendre Miller, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Darnell Washington, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 26 percent of NO snaps, taken 33 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 38 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 0.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ATL he carried 6 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.
In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 67 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.
He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.
That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Darnell Washington was available for 9 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Kendre Miller scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 0.2 a game between them.
Kendre Miller finished RB79 and Darnell Washington TE39, which are two different ladders.
Kendre Miller is a running back and Darnell Washington a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Kendre Miller is off in Week 8 and Darnell Washington in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
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