Should I start Raheim Sanders or Zonovan Knight in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 7:01 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Raheim Sanders: 36 percent of the snaps and 8 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Zonovan Knight's 21 percent of the snaps and 26 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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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB · CLE · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 295
RB · ARI · bye 14
2025 vs anytime td line 5-6
- Overall rank
- 299
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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 Raheim Sanders, and the board ranks him 295th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Zonovan Knight, and the board ranks him 299th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Raheim Sanders, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Zonovan Knight, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
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.
Through Week 6, Zonovan Knight has been on the field for 16 percent of ARI snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 2 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against SEA he carried 2 times for 24 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against DET he carried 1 time for 8 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LAR he carried 15 times for 80 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 Zonovan Knight played 12 games and scored 92.9 PPR points, 7.7 a game, finishing RB50.
He carried 82 times for 269 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 22 of 31 targets for 160 more yards.
That came to 6.8 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 1.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Zonovan Knight was available for 8 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Zonovan Knight scored 7.7 PPR points a game and Raheim Sanders 5.1, 2.7 a game between them.
Raheim Sanders finished RB95 that year and Zonovan Knight RB50.
Zonovan Knight had 55 more carries than Raheim Sanders, 82 to 27.
Zonovan Knight had 19 more catches than Raheim Sanders, 22 to 3.
This season Raheim Sanders holds the bigger snap share, 32 percent against 16 percent.
This season Zonovan Knight holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 8 percent.
Byes and availability
Raheim Sanders is off in Week 11 and Zonovan Knight in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.
Raheim Sanders is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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