Should I start Rome Odunze or Rico Dowdle in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Rome Odunze's market-based projection is 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 79th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 7.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rome Odunze, and the board ranks him 66th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 65th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Rome Odunze has been on the field for 83 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 31 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 33 targets have averaged 13.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against NYJ he caught 6 of 7 targets for 94 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against GB he caught 3 of 9 targets for 40 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 36 percent of PIT snaps, taken 35 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Rome Odunze played 12 games and scored 146.1 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing WR41.

He caught 44 of 90 targets for 661 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 7-8 targets a game, a 49 percent catch rate and 15.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.

That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Rome Odunze 12.2, 0.5 a game between them.

Rome Odunze finished WR41 and Rico Dowdle RB18, which are two different ladders.

Rome Odunze is a wide receiver and Rico Dowdle a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rome Odunze is off in Week 10 and Rico Dowdle in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

2.7 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.