Start Travis Etienne Jr. or Quinshon Judkins? Week 1
Locks at kickoff, graded after.
Start Travis Etienne Jr. over Quinshon Judkins
Right: 14.8 to 7.0
- Books imply
- 7.7
- fantasy pts
- DET D vs RB
- 25.0
- 12th most to RBs (2026)
- Scored
- 14.8
- PPR pts
- JAX D vs RB
- 12.6
- 8th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 65%
- Week 1
- Target share
- 9%
- Week 1
- Scored
- 7.0
- PPR pts
Our Week 1 call
Start Travis Etienne Jr. over Quinshon Judkins in Week 1.
Travis Etienne Jr. is priced by the books at 7.7 projected points. Quinshon Judkins 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 Travis Etienne Jr. at ADP 39 and Quinshon Judkins at 47. Market coverage on Travis Etienne Jr. 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 7.7 fantasy points for Travis Etienne Jr., with 33 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.
No sportsbook posted a player market for Quinshon Judkins in Week 1.
Week 1 matchups
Travis Etienne Jr. and NO visit DET on Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.
DET allowed 25.0 fantasy points to RBs in its one game this season, the 12th most in the league.
Running backs ran for 80 yards and a touchdown against DET and caught passes for 30 more yards.
Quinshon Judkins and CLE visit JAX.
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.
By points allowed to the position, Travis Etienne Jr. has the softer matchup.
Injury status
Travis Etienne Jr. was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Quinshon Judkins was not on the injury report when the call was made.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025, Quinshon Judkins played 15 games for CLE and scored 169.8 PPR points, 11.3 a game, finishing RB26.
He ran 230 times for 827 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 26 of 36 targets for 171 yards.
He was on the field for 50 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.
Quinshon Judkins, Week 16 of 2025 against BUF: 26 of 66 snaps, 8 carries for 22 yards, 6 targets and 5 catches for 29 yards, 10.1 PPR points.
Quinshon Judkins, Week 15 of 2025 against CHI: 38 of 57 snaps, 12 carries for 21 yards, 4 targets and 3 catches for -4 yards, 4.7 PPR points.
How Week 1 went
Travis Etienne Jr. scored 14.8 PPR points and Quinshon Judkins scored 7.0.
The call was right: Travis Etienne Jr. outscored Quinshon Judkins by 7.8.
Travis Etienne Jr. finished 7.2 points above the 7.7 the props implied.
Travis Etienne Jr., Week 1 against DET: 53 of 90 snaps, 9 carries for 46 yards, 9 targets and 7 catches for 32 yards, 14.8 PPR points.
Travis Etienne Jr. finished as the week's RB16 in PPR scoring.
Quinshon Judkins, Week 1 against JAX: 33 of 51 snaps, 12 carries for 33 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 17 yards, 7.0 PPR points.
Quinshon Judkins finished as the week's RB39 in PPR scoring.
Their other Week 1 calls
On the draft board
Ranked ahead
RB13 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 34
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 4
Ranked behind
RB35 · CLE · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 1-8
- Overall rank
- 92
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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 board58
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Tierstier 4 and tier 7
- Board size244 draftable players
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