Should I start Travis Etienne Jr. or Malik Davis in Week 8?

Updated Nov 3, 12:26 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

Start Travis Etienne Jr.: he has been on the field this season, 51 percent of the snaps, and Malik Davis has no snap on record yet. 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.

Travis Etienne Jr.

RB · NO · bye 8

2025 vs rush yds line 9-8

Overall rank: 236

Malik Davis

RB · DAL · bye 14

2025 vs anytime td line 2-8

Overall rank: 240

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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 236th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Malik Davis, and the board ranks him 240th 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 Malik Davis, 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 3

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.

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Malik Davis this season.

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 Malik Davis played 10 games and scored 40.6 PPR points, 4.1 a game, finishing RB73.

He carried 52 times for 250 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 5 targets for 16 more yards.

That came to 5.2 carries a game at 4.8 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 23 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Travis Etienne Jr. was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Travis Etienne Jr. scored 14.9 PPR points a game and Malik Davis 4.1, 10.9 a game between them.

Travis Etienne Jr. finished RB10 that year and Malik Davis RB73.

Travis Etienne Jr. had 208 more carries than Malik Davis, 260 to 52.

Travis Etienne Jr. had 34 more catches than Malik Davis, 36 to 2.

Byes and availability

Travis Etienne Jr. is off in Week 8 and Malik Davis in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

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