Should I start Tony Pollard or Ollie Gordon II in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tony Pollard is 13.4 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is 90 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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.

Tony Pollard's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 55 percent of TEN snaps, taken 67 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 1.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 16 times for 48 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 19 times for 76 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 7.7 a game between them.

Tony Pollard finished RB23 that year and Ollie Gordon II RB68.

Tony Pollard had 172 more carries than Ollie Gordon II, 242 to 70.

Tony Pollard had 26 more catches than Ollie Gordon II, 33 to 7.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger snap share, 55 percent against 48 percent.

This season Tony Pollard holds the bigger share of the carries, 67 percent against 36 percent.

Byes and availability

Tony Pollard is off in Week 9 and Ollie Gordon II in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Tony Pollard has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.