Start MarShawn Lloyd or Blake Corum? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Blake Corum over MarShawn Lloyd
Right: 5.4 to 3.7
- Books imply
- 4.5
- fantasy pts
- SF D vs RB
- 24.3
- 14th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 23%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 0%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 5.4
- PPR pts

- MIN D vs RB
- 6.6
- fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 44%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 3%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 3.7
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Blake Corum over MarShawn Lloyd in Week 1.
Blake Corum is priced by the books at 4.5 projected points. MarShawn Lloyd has no player market posted for this week, so his side of this call rests on consensus ADP and the news wire only. Drafters take Blake Corum at ADP 126 and MarShawn Lloyd at 117. Market coverage on Blake Corum is 40 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.
What the books imply
No sportsbook posted a player market for MarShawn Lloyd in Week 1.
Player prop markets imply 4.5 fantasy points for Blake Corum, with 40 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
Week 1 matchups
MarShawn Lloyd and GB visit MIN.
MIN allowed 6.6 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the fewest in the league.
Running backs ran for 66 yards and no touchdowns against MIN and caught passes for 0 more yards.
Blake Corum and LAR host SF on Thursday at 8:35 PM ET.
SF allowed 24.3 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 14th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 114 yards and a touchdown against SF and caught passes for 29 more yards.
By points allowed to the position, Blake Corum has the softer matchup.
Injury status
MarShawn Lloyd was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Blake Corum was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Blake Corum played 17 games for LAR and scored 122.2 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB40.
He ran 145 times for 746 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 14 targets for 36 yards.
He was on the field for 29 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Blake Corum, Week 18 of 2025 against ARI: 13 carries for 59 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 10 yards, 7.9 PPR points.
Blake Corum, Week 17 of 2025 against ATL: 16 of 65 snaps, 6 carries for 18 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1.8 PPR points.
Blake Corum, Week 16 of 2025 against SEA: 27 of 92 snaps, 14 carries for 48 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for 13 yards, 1 touchdown, 13.1 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Blake Corum scored 5.4 PPR points and MarShawn Lloyd scored 3.7.
The call was right: Blake Corum outscored MarShawn Lloyd by 1.7.
Blake Corum finished 1.0 points above the 4.5 the props implied.
Blake Corum, Week 1 against SF: 14 of 61 snaps, 10 carries for 54 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 5.4 PPR points.
Blake Corum finished as the week's RB41 in PPR scoring.
MarShawn Lloyd, Week 1 against MIN: 30 of 68 snaps, 13 carries for 37 yards, 1 target and 0 catches for 0 yards, 3.7 PPR points.
MarShawn Lloyd finished as the week's RB52 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB16 · GB · bye 11
- Overall rank
- 38
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
RB41 · LAR · bye 11
2025 vs anytime td line 5-12
- Overall rank
- 161
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
The board cards are draft figures, not the week's call. Locks at kickoff, graded after. When the start/sit engine grades week 1, the call and the result appear on the public record, wrong ones included.
The gap between them
- Spots apart on the board123
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 10
- Board size244 draftable players
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