Start Aaron Jones Sr. or Samaje Perine? Week 10

Our Week 10 call

Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Samaje Perine in Week 10.

Market-based projections have Aaron Jones Sr. at 8.7 points and Samaje Perine at 6.7, a gap of 2.0. Samaje Perine's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is. No player market is posted for Aaron Jones Sr. this week yet, so his 8.7 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 7, 8 and 9 (11.3, 7.4 and 7.5); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 10 player market is posted for Aaron Jones Sr. yet. His market-based projections were 11.3, 7.4 and 7.5 points in Weeks 7, 8 and 9, an average of 8.7, which stands in until his Week 10 market posts.

Player markets imply 6.7 fantasy points for Samaje Perine, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market-based projection for Samaje Perine is 24 rushing yards and 0.3 touchdowns (9 and 10 market sources).

That puts Aaron Jones Sr. 2.0 points ahead of Samaje Perine on these projections.

Week 10 matchups

Aaron Jones Sr. and MIN visit GB on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

GB allowed 25.0 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 8 games, the 7th most in the league.

Running backs ran for 94 yards and 1.3 touchdowns a game against GB and caught passes for 34 more yards.

Samaje Perine and CIN host PIT on Sunday at 8:20 PM ET.

PIT allowed 20.2 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 8 games, the 14th fewest in the league.

Running backs ran for 70 yards and 0.4 touchdowns a game against PIT and caught passes for 47 more yards.

By points allowed to the position, Aaron Jones Sr. has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Aaron Jones Sr. is not on the injury report.

Samaje Perine is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 10

Through Week 9, Aaron Jones Sr. played 32 percent of MIN snaps, took 32 percent of the carries, drew 5 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

Aaron Jones Sr., Week 7 against IND: 15 of 59 snaps, 8 carries for 26 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 0 yards.

Aaron Jones Sr., Week 8 against DET: 21 of 53 snaps, 5 carries for 22 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 18 yards.

Aaron Jones Sr., Week 9 against BUF: 5 carries for 16 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 5 yards.

Through Week 9, Samaje Perine played 36 percent of CIN snaps, took 27 percent of the carries, drew 4 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

Samaje Perine, Week 5 against MIA: 33 of 65 snaps, 14 carries for 68 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 10 yards, 1 touchdown.

Samaje Perine, Week 7 against BAL: 12 of 53 snaps, 4 carries for 16 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown.

Samaje Perine, Week 8 against TEN: 26 of 74 snaps, 4 carries for 10 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 9 yards.

Samaje Perine, Week 9 against ATL: 23 of 57 snaps, 11 carries for 43 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games for MIN and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.

He ran 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 yards.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

In 2025, Samaje Perine played 15 games for CIN and scored 77.9 PPR points, 5.2 a game, finishing RB57.

He ran 84 times for 382 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 17 of 21 targets for 87 yards.

He was on the field for 34 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 10 calls

• Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Aaron Jones Sr. over Blake Corum.
• Start Breece Hall over Aaron Jones Sr..
• Start Samaje Perine over Austin Ekeler.
• Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Samaje Perine.
• Start Corey Kiner over Samaje Perine.