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Should I start Dylan Sampson or Seth McGowan in Week 10?

Updated Nov 10, 12:06 PM ET.

Week 10 verdict

Start

RB · CLE · vs HOU

Market projects
6.5
recent weeks avg
HOU D vs RB
22.3
12th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
Limited
39 of 100 at RB
Snap share
55%
Through Week 9
Target share
16%
Through Week 9
Sit

RB · IND · vs MIA

Market projects
5.2
recent weeks avg
MIA D vs RB
25.0
8th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
53 of 100 at RB
Snap share
22%
Through Week 9
Target share
2%
Through Week 9
Start Sampson or McGowan? The full Week 10 breakdown

Start Dylan Sampson: 55 percent of the snaps and 20 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Seth McGowan's 30 percent of the snaps and 28 percent of the carries. 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.

RB53 · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 2-2

Market-based projection
7.2 pts a game Wk 9 price
Overall rank
206

RB · IND · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-8

Overall rank
not on the board

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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 206th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Seth McGowan at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

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.

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

This season through Week 9

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 9, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 22 percent of IND snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 44 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against MIN he carried 11 times for 46 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against JAX he carried 5 times for 29 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against DAL he carried 6 times for 45 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 22 percent.

This season Dylan Sampson holds the bigger share of the carries, 20 percent against 18 percent.

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Seth McGowan.

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