Should I start Samaje Perine or Isaiah Davis in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 3:46 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Week 7 verdict
Start Samaje Perine over Isaiah Davis
- Market projects
- 4.7
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 37%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 5%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 4.2
- recent weeks avg
- Snap share
- 12%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 6
Start Samaje Perine: 39 percent of the snaps and 32 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Isaiah Davis's 12 percent of the snaps and 5 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB42 · CIN · bye 6
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 148
RB · NYJ · bye unlisted
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- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 148th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Our board does not carry Isaiah Davis at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Samaje Perine 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.
No season market is posted for Isaiah Davis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 37 percent of CIN snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.
In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 6, Isaiah Davis has been on the field for 12 percent of NYJ snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 19 third down targets and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have come 5.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 4 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against CLE he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against NE he carried 7 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 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 Isaiah Davis played 16 games and scored 71.2 PPR points, 4.5 a game, finishing RB59.
He carried 43 times for 236 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 21 of 28 targets for 186 more yards.
That came to 2.7 carries a game at 6 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 29 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Isaiah Davis was available for 1 game more.
Head to head
In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Isaiah Davis 4.5, 0.7 a game between them.
Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Isaiah Davis RB59.
Samaje Perine had 41 more carries than Isaiah Davis, 84 to 43.
Isaiah Davis had 4 more catches than Samaje Perine, 21 to 17.
This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 37 percent against 12 percent.
This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 25 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Samaje Perine is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Isaiah Davis.
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