Should I start Samaje Perine or Keaton Mitchell in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keaton Mitchell, and the board ranks him 182nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 6.8 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 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.

The market-based projection for Keaton Mitchell is 1.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 9

Through Week 9, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 36 percent of CIN snaps, taken 27 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 68 third down targets, had 1 of its 20 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 47 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 4 times for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against TEN he carried 4 times for 10 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against ATL he carried 11 times for 43 yards and did not score.

Through Week 9, Keaton Mitchell has been on the field for 31 percent of LAC snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 79 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against KC he carried 2 times for 4 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against LAR he carried 4 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against HOU he carried 7 times for 33 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Keaton Mitchell played 13 games and scored 55.4 PPR points, 4.3 a game, finishing RB67.

He carried 59 times for 341 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 9 of 12 targets for 63 more yards.

That came to 4-5 carries a game at 5.8 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.

He was on the field for 17 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Samaje Perine was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Keaton Mitchell 4.3, 0.9 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Keaton Mitchell RB67.

Samaje Perine had 25 more carries than Keaton Mitchell, 84 to 59.

Samaje Perine had 8 more catches than Keaton Mitchell, 17 to 9.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 36 percent against 31 percent.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 27 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Samaje Perine is off in Week 6 and Keaton Mitchell in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.