Should I start Dylan Sampson or Tommy Tremble in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 141st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 142nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.7 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.

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 4.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 99th highest figure of the 217 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 8

Through Week 8, Dylan Sampson has been on the field for 51 percent of CLE snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 0.3 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.

Through Week 8, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 56 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 0 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 34 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 4.3 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 1 of 3 targets for 19 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 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tommy Tremble was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Tommy Tremble 3.8, 2.1 a game between them.

Dylan Sampson finished RB55 and Tommy Tremble TE42, which are two different ladders.

Dylan Sampson is a running back and Tommy Tremble a tight end, 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. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

What would change the answer

Dylan Sampson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.