Deebo Samuel Sr. or Travis Etienne Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Travis Etienne Jr., so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR35 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs anytime td line 3-1
- Market price
- 8.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB55 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 200
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 13
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Deebo Samuel Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 200th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Deebo Samuel Sr. at 8.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 185 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Deebo Samuel Sr. has been on the field for 60 percent of SF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 17 targets have averaged 2.9 air yards.
In Week 2 against MIA he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 2 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 3 times for 44 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 26 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Their last full seasons
The season feed carries no line for Deebo Samuel Sr. in the last completed season.
The season feed carries no line for Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.
Side by side
Deebo Samuel Sr. is a wide receiver and Travis Etienne Jr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Travis Etienne Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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