Should I start Treylon Burks or Samaje Perine in Week 9?

The market-based projections

Treylon Burks's market-based projection is 6.7 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 98th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Samaje Perine's market-based projection is 4.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 220 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Treylon Burks, and the board ranks him 92nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Treylon Burks has been on the field for 52 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have averaged 17.6 air yards.

In Week 5 against NYG he caught 2 of 5 targets for 26 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 4 of 6 targets for 66 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 3 of 5 targets for 81 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 35 percent of CIN snaps, taken 23 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 61 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against TEN he carried 4 times for 10 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 9 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Treylon Burks played 8 games and scored 29.0 PPR points, 3.6 a game, finishing WR138.

He caught 10 of 22 targets for 130 yards and 1 touchdown, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 2.8 targets a game, a 45 percent catch rate and 13.0 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 58 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.

Samaje Perine was available for 7 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Samaje Perine scored 5.2 PPR points a game and Treylon Burks 3.6, 1.6 a game between them.

Treylon Burks finished WR138 and Samaje Perine RB57, which are two different ladders.

Treylon Burks 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

Treylon Burks is off in Week 7 and Samaje Perine in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

2.1 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.