Should I start Samaje Perine or Isaac TeSlaa in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Isaac TeSlaa, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 6.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 market sources. That is 70 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 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 36 percent of CIN snaps, taken 27 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 4 times for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he carried 4 times for 10 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against ATL he carried 11 times for 43 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Isaac TeSlaa has been on the field for 56 percent of DET snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 0 of its 23 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 23 targets have averaged 11.4 air yards.

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.

In Week 9 against MIA he caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 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 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Isaac TeSlaa 4.5, 0.7 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 and Isaac TeSlaa WR82, which are two different ladders.

Samaje Perine 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

Both are off in Week 6, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

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