Should I start Tony Pollard or Rashid Shaheed in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tony Pollard, and the board ranks him 35th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rashid Shaheed, and the board ranks him 157th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 50.

The market-based projections

Tony Pollard's market-based projection is 12.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 7 market sources. That is the 47th highest figure of the 213 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Rashid Shaheed is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a wide receiver's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 62 percent of TEN snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 41 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 67 third down targets, had 10 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.

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

In Week 7 against CLE he carried 25 times for 129 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 26 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

In Week 8 against CIN he carried 21 times for 117 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 7, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 49 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 5 of 8 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against KC he caught 2 of 3 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

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 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashid Shaheed was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tony Pollard scored 10.9 PPR points a game and Rashid Shaheed 8.7, 2.2 a game between them.

Tony Pollard finished RB23 and Rashid Shaheed WR39, which are two different ladders.

Tony Pollard is a running back and Rashid Shaheed a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Tony Pollard is off in Week 9 and Rashid Shaheed in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rashid Shaheed is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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