Should I start Efton Chism or Dylan Sampson in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Efton Chism, and the board ranks him 129th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 130th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Efton Chism's market-based projection is 4.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Efton Chism has been on the field for 47 percent of NE snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 42 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LV he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 57 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NYJ he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Efton Chism played 8 games and scored 16.5 PPR points, 2.1 a game.

He caught 3 of 3 targets for 75 yards and 1 touchdown, with 1 red zone target.

That came to 0.4 targets a game, a 100 percent catch rate and 25.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.

That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dylan Sampson was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Efton Chism 2.1, 3.8 a game between them.

Efton Chism is a wide receiver and Dylan Sampson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Efton Chism.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Dylan Sampson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.