Should I start Samaje Perine or Tommy Tremble in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tommy Tremble, and the board ranks him 147th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 2.2 PPR points a game off 1 market across 11 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Tommy Tremble's market-based projection is 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 205 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 35 percent of CIN snaps, taken 24 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 36 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

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

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 14 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against BAL he carried 4 times for 16 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Tommy Tremble has been on the field for 55 percent of CAR snaps, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have averaged 5.0 air yards.

In Week 4 against DET he caught 4 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against PHI he caught 4 of 4 targets for 46 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against TB he caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

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 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 Tommy Tremble played 17 games and scored 63.9 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing TE42.

He caught 27 of 37 targets for 249 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 5 red zone targets.

That came to 2.2 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tommy Tremble was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Tommy Tremble 3.8, 1.4 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 and Tommy Tremble TE42, which are two different ladders.

Samaje Perine is a running back and Tommy Tremble a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Samaje Perine is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Tommy Tremble.

What would change the answer

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