Should I start Tommy Tremble or Emeka Egbuka in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emeka Egbuka, and the board ranks him 106th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 5.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emeka Egbuka is 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 55 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 6, Emeka Egbuka has been on the field for 86 percent of TB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 19 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 3 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 49 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against GB he caught 2 of 4 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against PIT he caught 7 of 16 targets for 48 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Emeka Egbuka played 17 games and scored 195.7 PPR points, 11.5 a game, finishing WR23.

He caught 63 of 127 targets for 938 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Emeka Egbuka scored 11.5 PPR points a game and Tommy Tremble 3.8, 7.8 a game between them.

Tommy Tremble finished TE42 and Emeka Egbuka WR23, which are two different ladders.

Tommy Tremble is a tight end and Emeka Egbuka a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Emeka Egbuka is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

Emeka Egbuka is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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