Should I start Nate Boerkircher or Rachaad White in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 8:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Start Rachaad White: 57 percent of the snaps and 29 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Nate Boerkircher's 47 percent of the snaps and 6 percent of the targets. 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
TE19 · JAX · bye unlisted
- Market-based projection
- 2.3 pts a game
RB36 · WAS · bye 7
2026 vs carries line 4-2
- Market-based projection
- 11.5 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 114
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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 Nate Boerkircher, and the board ranks him 113th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Rachaad White, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Nate Boerkircher's market-based projection is 2.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 90th highest figure of the 183 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Rachaad White is 3.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Rachaad White's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Nate Boerkircher has been on the field for 48 percent of JAX snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 1 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 9 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.
In Week 5 against PHI he caught 2 of 2 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against HOU he caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against IND he caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Rachaad White has been on the field for 53 percent of WAS snaps, taken 28 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 47 third down targets, had 3 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.
His 18 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.
In Week 5 against NYG he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SF he carried 7 times for 27 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against PHI he carried 11 times for 55 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Nate Boerkircher is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
In 2025 Rachaad White played 17 games and scored 143.0 PPR points, 8.4 a game, finishing RB32.
He carried 132 times for 572 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 40 of 45 targets for 218 more yards.
That came to 7.8 carries a game at 4.3 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Side by side
Nate Boerkircher is a tight end and Rachaad White a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Rachaad White is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for Nate Boerkircher.
What would change the answer
Rachaad White has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Both players in full
Week 9 on the board
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- Week 9 fantasy rankings
- Week 9 start or sit
- Week 9 waiver wire
- Week 9 trade value chart
- Trade deadline buy low, sell high
- Fantasy football rankings
- Start 'em sit 'em Week 9
- Waiver wire pickups
- Fantasy sleepers
- Rest of season rankings
- Week 9 kicker rankings
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