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Should I start Dylan Sampson or Jameis Winston in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 2:16 PM ET.

Start Jameis Winston: he has been on the field this season, 85 percent of the snaps, and Dylan Sampson 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.

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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.

RB45 · CLE · bye 11

2025 vs anytime td line 2-13

Overall rank
127

QB21 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs pass yds line 2-3

Market-based projection
14.6 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
129

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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 Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 127th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

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.

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

This season through Week 6

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

Through Week 6, Jameis Winston has been on the field for 88 percent of NYG snaps, dropped back 178 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 178 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 4 against ARI he completed 18 of 29 passes for 250 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against WAS he completed 33 of 54 passes for 326 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 28 yards.

In Week 6 against NO he completed 14 of 26 passes for 152 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 2 times for 5 yards.

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 Jameis Winston played 3 games and scored 45.3 PPR points, 15.1 a game, finishing QB46.

He threw for 567 yards on 66 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, and ran for 23 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 22.0 attempts a game at 8.6 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dylan Sampson was available for 12 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jameis Winston scored 15.1 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 9.3 a game between them.

Dylan Sampson finished RB55 and Jameis Winston QB46, which are two different ladders.

Dylan Sampson is a running back and Jameis Winston a quarterback, 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 and Jameis Winston in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.

Both players in full

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