Should I start Quinshon Judkins or Kaelon Black in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Quinshon Judkins, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kaelon Black, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Quinshon Judkins's market-based projection is 8.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 83rd highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Kaelon Black is 7.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 10 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Quinshon Judkins has been on the field for 52 percent of CLE snaps, taken 59 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 9 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 50 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have come 1.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against TEN he carried 17 times for 96 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against PIT he carried 11 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against NO he carried 15 times for 43 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Kaelon Black has been on the field for 29 percent of SF snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 57 third down targets, had 3 of its 28 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against WAS he carried 8 times for 34 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against ATL he carried 12 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for -4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 9 against LV he carried 11 times for 70 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Quinshon Judkins played 15 games and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.

He carried 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 more yards.

That came to 15.3 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 1.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 50 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kaelon Black is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

Head to head

This season Quinshon Judkins holds the bigger snap share, 52 percent against 29 percent.

This season Quinshon Judkins holds the bigger share of the carries, 59 percent against 30 percent.

Byes and availability

Quinshon Judkins is off in Week 11 and Kaelon Black in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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