Dylan Sampson or Tampa Bay Defense: who should I start in Week 3?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Sep 25, 2026 at 6:21 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and no sportsbook prices either of them this season, 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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RB57 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 2-13
- Overall rank
- 226
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
DEF17 · TB · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 227
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 1
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size227 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 sportsbooks' 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 226th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Tampa Bay Defense: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Dylan Sampson, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Tampa Bay Defense, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
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.
The season feed carries no line for Tampa Bay Defense in the last completed season.
Side by side
Dylan Sampson is a running back and Tampa Bay Defense a defense, 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 Tampa Bay Defense in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.
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