Samaje Perine or Mason Taylor: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Mason Taylor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 187th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Samaje Perine at 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

The player markets price Mason Taylor at 4.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 176th highest figure of the 221 players the market prices.

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

This season so far

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.

Through Week 2, Mason Taylor has been on the field for 55 percent of NYJ snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have averaged 0.3 air yards.

In Week 1 against TEN he caught 2 of 3 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against GB he was not given the ball.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Mason Taylor played 13 games and scored 88.9 PPR points, 6.8 a game, finishing TE32.

He caught 44 of 65 targets for 369 yards and 1 touchdown, with 7 red zone targets.

That came to 5.0 targets a game, a 68 percent catch rate and 8.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 81 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Samaje Perine was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Mason Taylor scored 6.8 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 1.6 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 and Mason Taylor TE32, which are two different ladders.

Samaje Perine is a running back and Mason Taylor a tight end, 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.