Samaje Perine or Sean Tucker: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Samaje Perine: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Sean Tucker: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 190th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Samaje Perine at 4.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market has Sean Tucker at 3.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Samaje Perine's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 34 percent of CIN snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 31 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against HOU he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 3 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Sean Tucker has been on the field for 3 percent of TB snaps, taken 6 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 18 third down targets, had 1 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 3 times for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Samaje Perine played 15 games and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He carried 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 more yards.

That came to 5.6 carries a game at 4.5 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Sean Tucker played 17 games and scored 91.4 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing RB52.

He carried 86 times for 320 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 11 targets for 34 more yards.

That came to 5.1 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0.5 catches a game.

He was on the field for 16 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Sean Tucker was available for 2 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Sean Tucker scored 5.4 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 0.2 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Sean Tucker RB52.

Sean Tucker had 2 more carries than Samaje Perine, 86 to 84.

Samaje Perine had 9 more catches than Sean Tucker, 17 to 8.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 34 percent against 3 percent.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 16 percent against 6 percent.