Should I start Tyjae Spears or Tory Horton in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tyjae Spears, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Tory Horton, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyjae Spears is 0.8 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Tory Horton's market-based projection is 3.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 126th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Tyjae Spears has been on the field for 42 percent of TEN snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 48 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 2.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -1 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 2 times for 0 yards, caught 9 of 9 targets for 28 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against IND he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 7 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Tory Horton has been on the field for 28 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 2 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have averaged 8.4 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 1 target for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against SF he was not given the ball.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 1 of 5 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyjae Spears played 13 games and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He carried 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 more yards.

That came to 5-6 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 3-4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 46 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.

Tyjae Spears was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Tyjae Spears scored 8.6 PPR points a game and Tory Horton 8.1, 0.5 a game between them.

Tyjae Spears finished RB44 and Tory Horton WR96, which are two different ladders.

Tyjae Spears 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.

Byes and availability

Tyjae Spears is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tory Horton.

What would change the answer

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