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Should I start Ollie Gordon II or Raheim Sanders in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 11:16 PM ET.

Start Ollie Gordon II: 71 percent of the snaps and 53 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Raheim Sanders's 36 percent of the snaps and 8 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.

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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

RB · CLE · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
311

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Raheim Sanders, and the board ranks him 311th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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.

No season market is posted for Raheim Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

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 5, Raheim Sanders has been on the field for 32 percent of CLE snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 1 time for 17 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 1 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.

In 2025 Raheim Sanders played 4 games and scored 20.3 PPR points, 5.1 a game, finishing RB95.

He carried 27 times for 92 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 more yards.

That came to 6.8 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 12 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ollie Gordon II was available for 13 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Raheim Sanders scored 5.1 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 1.9 a game between them.

Ollie Gordon II finished RB68 that year and Raheim Sanders RB95.

Ollie Gordon II had 43 more carries than Raheim Sanders, 70 to 27.

Ollie Gordon II had 4 more catches than Raheim Sanders, 7 to 3.

This season Ollie Gordon II holds the bigger snap share, 48 percent against 32 percent.

This season Ollie Gordon II holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Raheim Sanders is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Raheim Sanders has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Both players in full

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