Should I start Dylan Sampson or Rico Dowdle in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Dylan Sampson, 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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RB41 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 2-13
- Overall rank
- 139
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
RB42 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 6-11
- Market-based projection
- 6.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size317 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 Dylan Sampson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 6.2 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.
Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 6.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 2
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.
Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 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 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.
He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Rico Dowdle was available for 2 games more.
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Head to head
In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Dylan Sampson 5.8, 6.9 a game between them.
Dylan Sampson finished RB55 that year and Rico Dowdle RB18.
Rico Dowdle had 171 more carries than Dylan Sampson, 236 to 65.
Rico Dowdle had 6 more catches than Dylan Sampson, 39 to 33.
Byes and availability
Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.
Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.
Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Dylan Sampson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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