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Should I start Ollie Gordon II or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start

RB · MIA · at NYJ

Market projects
9.7
fantasy pts
NYJ D vs RB
21.9
14th most to RBs (2026)
Upside
High
89 of 100 at RB
Sit

RB · GB · at DET

Market projects
5.0
fantasy pts
DET D vs RB
18.7
8th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
45 of 100 at RB
Snap share
39%
Through Week 6
Target share
6%
Through Week 6
Start Gordon or Lloyd? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start Ollie Gordon II: 71 percent of the snaps and 53 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against MarShawn Lloyd's 46 percent of the snaps and 36 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.

Should I drop MarShawn Lloyd for Ollie Gordon II?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Ollie Gordon II projects 110 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.0 a game over 11 games), MarShawn Lloyd 67 (6.7 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Ollie Gordon II over MarShawn Lloyd, 9.7 to 5.0 projected PPR points.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB21 · MIA · bye 6

2026 vs anytime td line 3-2

Market-based projection
9.7 pts a game

RB34 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Overall rank
105

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The gap

  • Board size315 draftable players

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 Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 105th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

The market-based projections

Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 9.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for MarShawn Lloyd is 5.2 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 48 percent of MIA snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 5 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 18 times for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, MarShawn Lloyd has been on the field for 39 percent of GB snaps, taken 41 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 23 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 64 third down targets, had 3 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against TB he carried 7 times for 13 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 36 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 10 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 6 against DAL he carried 8 times for 10 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

The season feed carries no line for MarShawn Lloyd in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Ollie Gordon II holds the bigger snap share, 48 percent against 39 percent.

This season MarShawn Lloyd holds the bigger share of the carries, 41 percent against 36 percent.

Byes and availability

Ollie Gordon II is off in Week 6 and MarShawn Lloyd in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop MarShawn Lloyd for Ollie Gordon II?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Ollie Gordon II projects 110 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.0 a game over 11 games), MarShawn Lloyd 67 (6.7 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Ollie Gordon II over MarShawn Lloyd, 9.7 to 5.0 projected PPR points.

  • Should I drop Ollie Gordon II for MarShawn Lloyd?

    No. Keep Ollie Gordon II: he projects 110 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (10.0 a game over 11 games), MarShawn Lloyd 67 (6.7 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts Ollie Gordon II over MarShawn Lloyd, 9.7 to 5.0 projected PPR points.

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