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Should I start Denzel Boston or Zach Charbonnet in Week 9?

Updated Nov 2, 10:51 PM ET.

Start Denzel Boston: he has been on the field this season, 91 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. 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.

Should I drop Zach Charbonnet for Denzel Boston?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Denzel Boston projects 84 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 8 games), Zach Charbonnet 32 (4.0 a game over 8 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Denzel Boston

WR36 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 3-5

Market-based projection
9.8 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
89

Zach Charbonnet

RB30 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection
8.3 pts a game

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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 Denzel Boston, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Denzel Boston, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Zach Charbonnet's market-based projection is 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 19 players with a market-based projection.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Denzel Boston has been on the field for 91 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 17 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 53 targets have averaged 15.1 air yards.

In Week 6 against BAL he caught 1 of 5 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TEN he caught 3 of 8 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PIT he caught 6 of 11 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Their 2025 seasons

Denzel Boston is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Denzel Boston is a wide receiver and Zach Charbonnet 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 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Denzel Boston has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Zach Charbonnet for Denzel Boston?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Denzel Boston projects 84 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 8 games), Zach Charbonnet 32 (4.0 a game over 8 games).

  • Should I drop Denzel Boston for Zach Charbonnet?

    No. Keep Denzel Boston: he projects 84 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (10.5 a game over 8 games), Zach Charbonnet 32 (4.0 a game over 8 games).

Both players in full

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