Should I start Tre Tucker or Samaje Perine in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tre Tucker, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 60th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tre Tucker's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 77th highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 7.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a 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, Tre Tucker has been on the field for 68 percent of LV snaps, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 13 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 47 targets have averaged 13.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against NE he carried 2 times for -6 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he caught 5 of 7 targets for 97 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 7 against LAR he caught 5 of 12 targets for 103 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tre Tucker played 17 games and scored 161.7 PPR points, 9.5 a game, finishing WR38.

He caught 57 of 92 targets for 696 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 5.4 targets a game, a 62 percent catch rate and 12.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Tre Tucker was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tre Tucker scored 9.5 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 4.3 a game between them.

Tre Tucker finished WR38 and Samaje Perine RB57, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Tre Tucker is off in Week 13 and Samaje Perine in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.