Start Bam Knight or Kendre Miller? Week 7
Locks at kickoff, graded after. Week 8 answer posts Tuesday.
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Start Bam Knight over Kendre Miller
- Market projects
- 9.5
- fantasy pts
- Market projects
- 7.3
- fantasy pts
- PIT D vs RB
- 20.4
- 15th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 30%
- Through Week 6
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 6
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Our Week 7 call
Start Bam Knight over Kendre Miller in Week 7.
Market-based projections have Bam Knight at 9.5 points and Kendre Miller at 7.3, a gap of 2.2. Bam Knight'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. Market coverage on Bam Knight is 70 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the market projects
Player markets imply 9.5 fantasy points for Bam Knight, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Bam Knight is 43 rushing yards and 0.3 touchdowns (12 and 13 market sources).
Player markets imply 7.3 fantasy points for Kendre Miller, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
The market-based projection for Kendre Miller is 38 rushing yards, 4 receiving yards, 0-1 receptions and 0-1 touchdowns (13, 8, 8 and 13 market sources).
That puts Bam Knight 2.2 points ahead of Kendre Miller on the market projections.
Week 7 matchups
Kendre Miller and NO host PIT on Sunday at 9:30 AM ET.
PIT allowed 20.5 fantasy points a game to RBs this season over 6 games, the 15th fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 86 yards and 0-1 touchdowns a game against PIT and caught passes for 35 more yards.
Injury status
Bam Knight is not on the injury report.
Kendre Miller is not on the injury report.
Usage before Week 7
Through Week 6, Kendre Miller played 30 percent of NO snaps, took 39 percent of the carries, drew 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.
Kendre Miller, Week 3 against LV: 14 of 74 snaps, 4 carries for 14 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 5 yards.
Kendre Miller, Week 4 against ATL: 19 of 74 snaps, 6 carries for 9 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 10 yards.
Kendre Miller, Week 5 against MIN: 14 of 45 snaps, 10 carries for 30 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown.
Kendre Miller, Week 6 against NYG: 32 of 72 snaps, 20 carries for 70 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 0 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Kendre Miller played 7 games for NO and scored 33.3 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB79.
He ran 47 times for 193 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 5 of 5 targets for 30 yards.
He was on the field for 24 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Their other Week 7 calls
Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 7, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.