Should I start Samaje Perine or Tyrone Tracy Jr. in Week 7?

The market-based projections

Samaje Perine's market-based projection is 6.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 125th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 130th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Samaje Perine, and the board ranks him 94th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyrone Tracy Jr., and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Samaje Perine has been on the field for 37 percent of CIN snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.

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.

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

Through Week 6, Tyrone Tracy Jr. has been on the field for 15 percent of NYG snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 55 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 4 against ARI he carried 1 time for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against WAS he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 25 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against NO he carried 6 times for 18 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 27 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Tyrone Tracy Jr. played 15 games and scored 160.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing RB28.

He carried 176 times for 740 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 48 targets for 288 more yards.

That came to 11.7 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 15 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyrone Tracy Jr. scored 10.7 PPR points a game and Samaje Perine 5.2, 5.5 a game between them.

Samaje Perine finished RB57 that year and Tyrone Tracy Jr. RB28.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. had 92 more carries than Samaje Perine, 176 to 84.

Tyrone Tracy Jr. had 19 more catches than Samaje Perine, 36 to 17.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger snap share, 37 percent against 15 percent.

This season Samaje Perine holds the bigger share of the carries, 25 percent against 8 percent.

Byes and availability

Samaje Perine is off in Week 6 and Tyrone Tracy Jr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.2 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.