Should I start Zach Charbonnet or J.K. Dobbins in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on J.K. Dobbins, and the board ranks him 71st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Zach Charbonnet is 10.0 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 40 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

J.K. Dobbins's market-based projection is 9.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 6, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 44 percent of DEN snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 7 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 11 times for 40 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.

He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Zach Charbonnet 11.3, 0.3 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 that year and J.K. Dobbins RB43.

Zach Charbonnet had 31 more carries than J.K. Dobbins, 184 to 153.

Zach Charbonnet had 9 more catches than J.K. Dobbins, 20 to 11.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Zach Charbonnet is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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