Marvin Mims or Samaje Perine: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Marvin Mims: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 162nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Marvin Mims at 3.7 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 163rd highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

The market has Samaje Perine at 4.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Samaje Perine's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Marvin Mims has been on the field for 23 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 21 third down targets and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 6.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against KC he was not given the ball.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 3 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Marvin Mims played 15 games and scored 93.0 PPR points, 6.2 a game, finishing WR66.

He caught 37 of 51 targets for 322 yards and 1 touchdown, with 2 red zone targets.

That came to 3.4 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 8.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 35 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Marvin Mims scored 6.2 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 1.0 a game between them.

Marvin Mims finished WR66 and Samaje Perine RB57, which are two different ladders.

Marvin Mims is a wide receiver and Samaje Perine a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Samaje Perine is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.