Samaje Perine or Jahan Dotson: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Samaje Perine at 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 153rd highest figure of the 213 players the market prices.

The player markets price Jahan Dotson at 4.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 159th highest figure of the 213 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 173rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jahan Dotson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 172nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Jahan Dotson has been on the field for 67 percent of ATL snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 15.8 air yards.

In Week 2 against CAR he caught 2 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against GB he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NO he caught 2 of 3 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 4.5 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 Jahan Dotson played 17 games and scored 50.2 PPR points, 3.0 a game, finishing WR109.

He caught 18 of 36 targets for 262 yards and 1 touchdown, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 2.1 targets a game, a 50 percent catch rate and 14.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jahan Dotson was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Jahan Dotson 3.0, 2.2 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 and Jahan Dotson WR109, which are two different ladders.

Samaje Perine is a running back and Jahan Dotson a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

0.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.