Should I start Kendrick Bourne or Emanuel Wilson in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendrick Bourne, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 101st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Kendrick Bourne's market-based projection is 8.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 100th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 4.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Emanuel Wilson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 58 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 76 third down targets, had 1 of its 24 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 45 two minute targets.

His 36 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 5 of 8 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against DEN he caught 3 of 6 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 41 percent of SEA snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 7 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 24 times for 100 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.

He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.

That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kendrick Bourne scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 0.2 a game between them.

Kendrick Bourne finished WR68 and Emanuel Wilson RB49, which are two different ladders.

Kendrick Bourne is a wide receiver and Emanuel Wilson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kendrick Bourne is off in Week 14 and Emanuel Wilson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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