Should I start Kendre Miller or Zonovan Knight in Week 8?
Updated Oct 27, 12:26 PM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.
Start Kendre Miller: 39 percent of the snaps and 54 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Zonovan Knight's 36 percent of the snaps and 30 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
2026 vs anytime td line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 7.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
- Overall rank
- 287
RB · ARI · bye 14
2025 vs anytime td line 5-6
- Overall rank
- 293
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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 Kendre Miller, and the board ranks him 287th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Zonovan Knight, and the board ranks him 293rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Kendre Miller, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Zonovan Knight, 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 7
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.
Through Week 7, Zonovan Knight has been on the field for 25 percent of ARI snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 54 third down targets, had 2 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 2.7 air yards.
In Week 5 against DET he carried 1 time for 8 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LAR he carried 15 times for 80 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DEN he carried 7 times for 48 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 9 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Zonovan Knight played 12 games and scored 92.9 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing RB50.
He carried 82 times for 269 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 22 of 31 targets for 160 more yards.
That came to 6.8 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 1.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Zonovan Knight was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Zonovan Knight scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Kendre Miller 4.8, 3.0 a game between them.
Kendre Miller finished RB79 that year and Zonovan Knight RB50.
Zonovan Knight had 35 more carries than Kendre Miller, 82 to 47.
Zonovan Knight had 17 more catches than Kendre Miller, 22 to 5.
This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger snap share, 31 percent against 25 percent.
This season Kendre Miller holds the bigger share of the carries, 40 percent against 20 percent.
Byes and availability
Kendre Miller is off in Week 8 and Zonovan Knight in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Both players in full
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