Start Tank Bigsby or Dylan Sampson? Week 1

Our Week 1 call

Start Dylan Sampson over Tank Bigsby in Week 1.

Dylan Sampson is priced by the books at 0.9 projected points. Tank Bigsby 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 Dylan Sampson at ADP 184 and Tank Bigsby at 189. Market coverage on Dylan Sampson is 33 percent of what his position needs, so the market side of this carries proportionally less weight.

What the books imply

Player prop markets imply 0.9 fantasy points for Dylan Sampson, with 33 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

No sportsbook posted a player market for Tank Bigsby in Week 1.

Week 1 matchups

Dylan Sampson and CLE visit JAX on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

JAX allowed 12.6 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 8th fewest in the league.

Running backs ran for 34 yards and no touchdowns against JAX and caught passes for 42 more yards.

Tank Bigsby and PHI host WAS.

WAS allowed 11.5 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 6th fewest in the league.

Running backs ran for 90 yards and no touchdowns against WAS and caught passes for 5 more yards.

By points allowed to the position, Dylan Sampson has the softer matchup.

Injury status

Dylan Sampson was not on the injury report when the call was made.

Tank Bigsby was not on the injury report when the call was made.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Dylan Sampson played 15 games for CLE and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He ran 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 yards.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Dylan Sampson, Week 18 of 2025 against CIN: 10 carries for 32 yards, 3 targets and 2 catches for 12 yards, 6.4 PPR points.

Dylan Sampson, Week 17 of 2025 against PIT: 18 of 52 snaps, 11 carries for 27 yards, 3 targets and 3 catches for 0 yards, 5.7 PPR points.

In 2025, Tank Bigsby played 17 games for PHI and scored 53.8 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB69.

He ran 63 times for 356 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 4 targets for 32 yards.

He was on the field for 10 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Tank Bigsby, Week 18 of 2025 against WAS: 16 carries for 75 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 31 yards, 1 touchdown, 17.6 PPR points.

Tank Bigsby, Week 17 of 2025 against BUF: 5 of 54 snaps, 2 carries for 7 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 2 yards, 1.9 PPR points.

Tank Bigsby, Week 16 of 2025 against WAS: 8 of 70 snaps, 4 carries for 37 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 1 touchdown, 9.7 PPR points.

How Week 1 went

Dylan Sampson scored 0.0 PPR points and Tank Bigsby scored 0.3.

The call was wrong: Tank Bigsby outscored Dylan Sampson by 0.3.

Dylan Sampson finished 0.9 points below the 0.9 the props implied.

Dylan Sampson, Week 1 against JAX: 0 carries for 0 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Tank Bigsby, Week 1 against WAS: 6 of 55 snaps, 1 carry for 3 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards, 0.3 PPR points.

Tank Bigsby finished as the week's RB74 in PPR scoring.

Their other Week 1 calls

• Start Dylan Sampson over Braelon Allen.
• Start Dylan Sampson over Brian Robinson.
• Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Dylan Sampson.
• Start Braelon Allen over Tank Bigsby.
• Start Tank Bigsby over Brian Robinson.
• Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Tank Bigsby.