Should I start Erick All Jr. or Rico Dowdle in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Erick All Jr., and the board ranks him 174th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 175th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Erick All Jr. at 0.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Rico Dowdle is 1.8 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.

Erick All Jr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Erick All Jr. has been on the field for 28 percent of CIN snaps, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 7 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 38 percent of PIT snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 25 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 36 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he carried 9 times for 41 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

The season feed carries no line for Erick All Jr. in the last completed season.

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Erick All Jr. is a tight end and Rico Dowdle a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Erick All Jr. is off in Week 6 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Erick All Jr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.