Should I start Tyjae Spears or Kendrick Bourne in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Kendrick Bourne, and the board ranks him 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyjae Spears is 5.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 50 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Kendrick Bourne's market-based projection is 8.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 101st highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Kendrick Bourne has been on the field for 58 percent of ARI snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 14 of the offence's 63 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 40 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 5.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYG he was not given the ball.

In Week 5 against DET he caught 5 of 8 targets for 70 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against LAR he caught 5 of 8 targets for 47 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Kendrick Bourne played 16 games and scored 92.1 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing WR68.

He caught 37 of 53 targets for 551 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.3 targets a game, a 70 percent catch rate and 14.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Kendrick Bourne was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Kendrick Bourne 5.8, 2.8 a game between them.

Tyjae Spears finished RB44 and Kendrick Bourne WR68, which are two different ladders.

Tyjae Spears is a running back and Kendrick Bourne a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9 and Kendrick Bourne in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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