Should I start Kaelon Black or Tanner McKee in Week 9?
Updated Nov 5, 12:06 PM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Tanner McKee: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Kaelon Black's 30 percent of the snaps and 35 percent of the carries. 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.
RB52 · SF · bye 8
- Overall rank
- 179
QB32 · PHI · bye 10
- Overall rank
- 233
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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 Kaelon Black, and the board ranks him 179th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 233rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Kaelon Black is 1.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. 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 Tanner McKee is 8.6 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 3 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a quarterback'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 so far
Through Week 7, Kaelon Black has been on the field for 30 percent of SF snaps, taken 31 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 3 of its 24 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 5 against SEA he carried 6 times for 16 yards and did not score.
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.
Through Week 8, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 129 times and thrown 6.6 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 22 of 129 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.
In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.
In Week 7 against DAL he completed 23 of 35 passes for 211 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 1 yards.
In Week 8 against WAS he completed 23 of 34 passes for 212 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
Kaelon Black is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.
He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.
That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 3 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Kaelon Black is a running back and Tanner McKee a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Kaelon Black is off in Week 8 and Tanner McKee in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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