Should I start Elijah Mitchell or Zonovan Knight in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:11 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
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- : Zonovan Knight: Questionable to Out (Concussion) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : Zonovan Knight: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Zonovan Knight: 36 percent of the snaps and 30 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Elijah Mitchell's 0 percent of the snaps and 12 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.
RB · PHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 285
RB · ARI · bye 14
2025 vs anytime td line 5-6
- Overall rank
- 297
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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 Elijah Mitchell, and the board ranks him 285th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Zonovan Knight, and the board ranks him 297th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Elijah Mitchell, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Zonovan Knight, so the only market valuing 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.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Elijah Mitchell has been on the field for 0 percent of PHI snaps, taken 26 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 20 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have come 4.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 3 times for 11 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against WAS he carried 11 times for 34 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 3 yards and did not score.
Through Week 8, Zonovan Knight has been on the field for 25 percent of ARI snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 12 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 3.1 air yards.
In Week 6 against LAR he carried 15 times for 80 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DEN he carried 7 times for 48 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against DAL he carried 3 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Elijah Mitchell played 1 game, finishing RB149.
He carried 0 times for 0 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.
He was on the field for 10 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Zonovan Knight played 12 games and scored 92.9 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing RB50.
He carried 82 times for 269 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 22 of 31 targets for 160 more yards.
That came to 6.8 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 1.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Zonovan Knight was available for 11 games more.
Head to head
Elijah Mitchell finished RB149 that year and Zonovan Knight RB50.
Zonovan Knight had 82 more carries than Elijah Mitchell, 82 to 0.
Zonovan Knight had 22 more catches than Elijah Mitchell, 22 to 0.
This season Zonovan Knight holds the bigger snap share, 25 percent against 0 percent.
This season Elijah Mitchell holds the bigger share of the carries, 26 percent against 18 percent.
Byes and availability
Elijah Mitchell is off in Week 10 and Zonovan Knight in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Zonovan Knight is listed as out on the injury report.
Both players in full
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