Should I start Travis Etienne Jr. or Kendre Miller in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 10:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Travis Etienne Jr.: 51 percent of the snaps and 38 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Kendre Miller's 39 percent of the snaps and 54 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.
RB · NO · on bye this week
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 235
RB · NO · on bye this week
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 287
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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 Travis Etienne Jr., and the board ranks him 235th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 287th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Kendre Miller, 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 so far
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, Kendre Miller has been on the field for 31 percent of NO snaps, taken 40 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 21 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 58 third down targets, had 5 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 35 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 1.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against MIN he carried 10 times for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 6 against NYG he carried 20 times for 70 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against PIT he carried 8 times for 6 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Travis Etienne Jr. played 17 games and scored 253.9 PPR points, 14.9 a game, finishing RB10.
He carried 260 times for 1107 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 52 targets for 292 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Kendre Miller played 7 games and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.
He carried 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 more yards.
That came to 6.7 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0.7 catches a game.
He was on the field for 24 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Travis Etienne Jr. was available for 10 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Travis Etienne Jr. scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 10.2 a game between them.
Travis Etienne Jr. finished RB10 that year and Kendre Miller RB79.
Travis Etienne Jr. had 213 more carries than Kendre Miller, 260 to 47.
Travis Etienne Jr. had 31 more catches than Kendre Miller, 36 to 5.
This season Travis Etienne Jr. holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 31 percent.
This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger share of the carries, 40 percent against 38 percent.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 8, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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