Should I start Kendre Miller or Isaac TeSlaa in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 119th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Kendre Miller is 3.2 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.

Isaac TeSlaa's market-based projection is 4.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 7, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against PIT he carried 8 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 57 percent of DET snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 0 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 12.4 air yards.

In Week 5 against ARI he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against GB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against MIN he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.

He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.

That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Isaac TeSlaa played 17 games and scored 75.9 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing WR82.

He caught 16 of 27 targets for 239 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 1.6 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 38 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Isaac TeSlaa was available for 10 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Kendre Miller scored 4.8 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 0.3 a game between them.

Kendre Miller finished RB79 and Isaac TeSlaa WR82, which are two different ladders.

Kendre Miller is a running back and Isaac TeSlaa a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Kendre Miller is off in Week 8 and Isaac TeSlaa in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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