Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Harold Fannin Jr. in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Harold Fannin Jr., and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 5.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 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.

The market has Harold Fannin Jr. at 4.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 2 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a tight end's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 7

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 7, Harold Fannin Jr. has been on the field for 83 percent of CLE snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 2 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 4.2 air yards.

In Week 7 against TEN he caught 6 of 9 targets for 91 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. played 16 games and scored 186.4 PPR points, 11.7 a game, finishing TE6.

He caught 72 of 107 targets for 731 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 6.7 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 10.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Harold Fannin Jr. scored 11.7 PPR points a game and Zach Charbonnet 11.3, 0.3 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Harold Fannin Jr. TE6, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Harold Fannin Jr. a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.