Start Tyjae Spears or Blake Corum? Week 1

Our Week 1 call

Start Blake Corum over Tyjae Spears in Week 1.

Blake Corum is priced by the books at 4.5 projected points. Tyjae Spears 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 Tyjae Spears at 135. 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

Player prop markets imply 4.5 fantasy points for Blake Corum, with 40 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

No sportsbook posted a player market for Tyjae Spears in Week 1.

Week 1 matchups

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.

Tyjae Spears and TEN host NYJ.

NYJ allowed 8.8 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 2nd fewest in the league.

Running backs ran for 47 yards and no touchdowns against NYJ and caught passes for 11 more yards.

By points allowed to the position, Blake Corum has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Blake Corum was not on the injury report when the call was made.

Tyjae Spears 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.

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

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

He was on the field for 46 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Tyjae Spears, Week 18 of 2025 against JAX: 3 carries for 18 yards, 7 targets and 7 catches for 9 yards, 9.7 PPR points.

Tyjae Spears, Week 17 of 2025 against NO: 39 of 74 snaps, 6 carries for 2 yards, 2 targets and 1 catch for -1 yards, 1.1 PPR points.

Tyjae Spears, Week 16 of 2025 against KC: 34 of 73 snaps, 13 carries for 52 yards, 5 targets and 5 catches for 53 yards, 1 touchdown, 21.5 PPR points.

How Week 1 went

Blake Corum scored 5.4 PPR points and Tyjae Spears scored 4.4.

The call was right: Blake Corum outscored Tyjae Spears by 1.0.

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.

Tyjae Spears, Week 1 against NYJ: 25 of 50 snaps, 3 carries for 12 yards, 4 targets and 2 catches for 12 yards, 4.4 PPR points.

Tyjae Spears finished as the week's RB45 in PPR scoring.

Their other Week 1 calls

• Start Blake Corum over Chris Rodriguez Jr..
• Start Blake Corum over Jacory Croskey-Merritt.
• Start Blake Corum over Jordan James.
• Start Tyjae Spears over Alvin Kamara.
• Start Tyjae Spears over Emari Demercado.
• Start Tyjae Spears over Emmett Johnson.