Should I start Dylan Sampson or Jacob Saylors in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jacob Saylors, and the board ranks him 209th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Jacob Saylors is 0.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. 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 so far

Through Week 9, Dylan Sampson has been on the field for 55 percent of CLE snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 28 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 0.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against TEN he carried 6 times for 45 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PIT he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 62 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NO he carried 8 times for 21 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

Through Week 3, Jacob Saylors has been on the field for 3 percent of DET snaps, taken 0 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jacob Saylors played 16 games and scored 1.1 PPR points, 0.1 a game, finishing RB136.

He carried 2 times for 11 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 0 targets for 0 more yards.

That came to 0.1 carries a game at 6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 1 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jacob Saylors was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Jacob Saylors 0.1, 5.8 a game between them.

Dylan Sampson finished RB55 that year and Jacob Saylors RB136.

Dylan Sampson had 63 more carries than Jacob Saylors, 65 to 2.

Dylan Sampson had 33 more catches than Jacob Saylors, 33 to 0.

This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 3 percent.

This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger share of the carries, 20 percent against 0 percent.

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11 and Jacob Saylors in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jacob Saylors is listed as out on the injury report.