Should I start Malik Davis or Jonathon Brooks in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jonathon Brooks: he has been on the field this season, 25 percent of the snaps, and Malik Davis 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 · DAL · bye 14
2025 vs anytime td line 2-8
- Overall rank
- 241
RB · CAR · bye 5
- Overall rank
- 265
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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 Malik Davis, and the board ranks him 241st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jonathon Brooks, and the board ranks him 265th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Malik Davis, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Jonathon Brooks, 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 2
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Malik Davis this season.
Through Week 2, Jonathon Brooks has been on the field for 25 percent of CAR snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 7 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 8.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against CHI he carried 4 times for 14 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 48 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against ATL he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Malik Davis played 10 games and scored 40.6 PPR points, 4.1 a game, finishing RB73.
He carried 52 times for 250 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 more yards.
That came to 5.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.
He was on the field for 23 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
The season feed carries no line for Jonathon Brooks in the last completed season.
Byes and availability
Malik Davis is off in Week 14 and Jonathon Brooks in Week 5, so either can cover the other's bye.
Malik Davis is listed as ir on the injury report.
Jonathon Brooks is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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