Should I start Kendre Miller or Jalen Coker in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jalen Coker, and the board ranks him 121st 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.

The market-based projection for Jalen Coker is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 4 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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, Jalen Coker has been on the field for 70 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 10 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 10.7 air yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 6 of 13 targets for 97 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against GB he caught 2 of 5 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Jalen Coker played 11 games and scored 90.4 PPR points, 8.2 a game, finishing WR69.

He caught 33 of 43 targets for 394 yards and 3 touchdowns, with 3 red zone targets.

That came to 3.9 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 68 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jalen Coker was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jalen Coker scored 8.2 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 3.5 a game between them.

Kendre Miller finished RB79 and Jalen Coker WR69, which are two different ladders.

Kendre Miller is a running back and Jalen Coker 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 Jalen Coker in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.