Skip to main content

Should I start Zach Charbonnet or Tyler Huntley in Week 8?

Updated Nov 2, 10:51 PM ET.

Latest

  • : Tyler Huntley: Questionable to Out (Toe) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : Tyler Huntley: Listed Questionable (Toe) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Tyler Huntley: he has been on the field this season, 100 percent of the snaps, and Zach Charbonnet has no snap on record yet. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Zach Charbonnet for Tyler Huntley?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Huntley projects 58 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (7.3 a game over 8 games), Zach Charbonnet 32 (4.0 a game over 8 games). Tyler Huntley is listed out.

Parlae may earn a commission from price links.

Advertisement

Your next move

More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RB30 · SEA · bye 11

2025 vs carries line 10-6

Market-based projection
8.3 pts a game

QB13 · BAL · bye 13

2026 vs pass yds line 2-2

Market-based projection
16.8 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
92

Make this call for your own roster

Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.

Sync my league

Or get it by email

Tuesday 7am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.

Free. One a week, one tap to stop.

The gap

  • Board size330 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Zach Charbonnet, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Zach Charbonnet's market-based projection is 8.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 8th highest figure of the 19 players with a market-based projection.

No season market is posted for Tyler Huntley, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 8

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Zach Charbonnet this season.

Through Week 8, Tyler Huntley has been on the field for 88 percent of BAL snaps, dropped back 130 times and thrown 6.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 130 dropbacks and scrambled 9 times.

In Week 6 against CLE he completed 19 of 31 passes for 165 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 28 yards.

In Week 7 against CIN he completed 23 of 34 passes for 298 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 3 times for 12 yards.

In Week 8 against BUF he completed 2 of 4 passes for 0 yards and threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet played 16 games and scored 181.4 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB24.

He carried 184 times for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns, and caught 20 of 24 targets for 144 more yards.

That came to 11-12 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 1.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 49 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Huntley played 5 games and scored 40.1 PPR points, 8.0 a game, finishing QB47.

He threw for 426 yards on 67 attempts with 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions, and ran for 151 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 13.4 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 26 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Zach Charbonnet was available for 11 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Zach Charbonnet scored 11.3 PPR points a game and Tyler Huntley 8.0, 3.3 a game between them.

Zach Charbonnet finished RB24 and Tyler Huntley QB47, which are two different ladders.

Zach Charbonnet is a running back and Tyler Huntley a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Zach Charbonnet is off in Week 11 and Tyler Huntley in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

Tyler Huntley is listed as out on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Tyler Huntley has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Zach Charbonnet for Tyler Huntley?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Tyler Huntley projects 58 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (7.3 a game over 8 games), Zach Charbonnet 32 (4.0 a game over 8 games). Tyler Huntley is listed out.

  • Should I drop Tyler Huntley for Zach Charbonnet?

    No. Keep Tyler Huntley: he projects 58 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (7.3 a game over 8 games), Zach Charbonnet 32 (4.0 a game over 8 games). Tyler Huntley is listed out.

Both players in full

Week 8 on the board

Next duels