Samaje Perine or Tory Horton: 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 165th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tory Horton: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 166th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Samaje Perine at 4.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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 player markets price Tory Horton at 3.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 165th highest figure of the 186 players the market prices.

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, Tory Horton has been on the field for 24 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 12 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 12.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he was not given the ball.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 3 of 3 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 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 Tory Horton played 8 games and scored 65.1 PPR points, 8.1 a game, finishing WR96.

He caught 13 of 22 targets for 161 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 59 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 47 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Samaje Perine was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tory Horton scored 8.1 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 2.9 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 and Tory Horton WR96, which are two different ladders.

Samaje Perine is a running back and Tory Horton a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

Samaje Perine is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.