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Should I start Tyrone Tracy Jr. or MarShawn Lloyd in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 6:26 PM ET.

Week 7 verdict

Start MarShawn Lloyd over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

Lloyd projects lower, 5.2 to 6.3, and still gets the call because it also weighs where drafters take each player: ADP 125 for Lloyd, 192 for Tracy.

Start

RB · GB · at DET

Market projects
5.2
fantasy pts
DET D vs RB
18.7
8th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Moderate
47 of 100 at RB
Snap share
39%
Through Week 6
Target share
6%
Through Week 6
Sit

RB · NYG · at HOU

Market projects
6.3
fantasy pts
HOU D vs RB
18.9
9th fewest to RBs (2026)
Start Lloyd or Tracy? The full Week 7 breakdown

Start MarShawn Lloyd: 46 percent of the snaps and 36 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s 25 percent of the snaps and 14 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 Tyrone Tracy Jr. for MarShawn Lloyd?

Yes, on the rest of the season. MarShawn Lloyd projects 67 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.7 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy Jr. 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts MarShawn Lloyd over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

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

RB27 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.3 pts a game

RB31 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 3-3

Overall rank
92

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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 Tyrone Tracy Jr., and the board ranks him 75th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on MarShawn Lloyd, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 48.

The market-based projections

Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 115th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for MarShawn Lloyd is 5.4 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 through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyrone Tracy Jr. has been on the field for 15 percent of NYG snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 27 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Tyrone Tracy Jr. played 15 games and scored 160.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing RB28.

He carried 176 times for 740 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 48 targets for 288 more yards.

That came to 11.7 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 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 MarShawn Lloyd holds the bigger snap share, 39 percent against 15 percent.

This season MarShawn Lloyd holds the bigger share of the carries, 41 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Tyrone Tracy Jr. is off in Week 8 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 Tyrone Tracy Jr. for MarShawn Lloyd?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. MarShawn Lloyd projects 67 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.7 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy Jr. 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts MarShawn Lloyd over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

  • Should I drop MarShawn Lloyd for Tyrone Tracy Jr.?

    No. Keep MarShawn Lloyd: he projects 67 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (6.7 a game over 10 games), Tyrone Tracy Jr. 34 (3.4 a game over 10 games). For Week 7 the call starts MarShawn Lloyd over Tyrone Tracy Jr.

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