Should I start Mike Washington Jr. or James Conner in Week 8?
Updated Nov 3, 12:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Mike Washington Jr.: he has been on the field this season, 26 percent of the snaps, and James Conner has no snap on record yet. 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.
RB · LV · bye 13
- Overall rank
- 267
RB · ARI · bye 14
- Overall rank
- 275
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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 Mike Washington Jr., and the board ranks him 267th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on James Conner, and the board ranks him 275th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Mike Washington Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for James Conner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Mike Washington Jr. has been on the field for 26 percent of LV snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 16 third down targets, had 6 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 1 target have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against LAR he carried 6 times for 27 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against NYJ he carried 25 times for 83 yards and did not score.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for James Conner this season.
Their 2025 seasons
Mike Washington Jr. is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 James Conner played 3 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 11.1 a game, finishing RB80.
He carried 32 times for 95 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 8 of 9 targets for 38 more yards.
That came to 10.7 carries a game at 3.0 yards a carry and 2.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Byes and availability
Mike Washington Jr. is off in Week 13 and James Conner in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
James Conner is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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