Start Chase Brown. Brown is projected for 16.5 PPR points vs 13.1 for Tony Pollard, and faces the 14th-softest defense against RBs this week.
Updated Oct 30, 7:29 AM ET
| Chase Brown RB · CIN | Tony Pollard RB · TEN | |
|---|---|---|
| Projection (Week 8, avg of sources) | 16.5 | 13.1 |
| Floor (lowest source) | 13.8 | 12.1 |
| Ceiling (highest source) | 17.7 | 14.1 |
| StatChasers projection | 16.7 (RB7) | 13.0 (RB21) |
| Opponent | vs TEN | vs CIN |
| Opponent vs. position | 14th-softest (22.0 pts/g allowed) | 4th-toughest (17.9 pts/g allowed) |
| Recent usage | 50% carry share (last 3) | 82% carry share (last 3) |
| Position | RB | RB |
| Our call | START · Strong RB1 | START · RB2 |
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Start Chase Brown. Brown projects for 16.5 PPR points vs TEN, against 13.1 for Tony Pollard vs CIN: a 3.4-point edge.
The projection is the average of every source that carries each player this week, and a player listed Out or Doubtful is never the start.
Chase Brown is projected to score more: 16.5 PPR points to 13.1 for Tony Pollard.
The sources range from 13.8 to 17.7 for Brown and from 12.1 to 14.1 for Pollard. The ranges overlap, so Pollard outscoring Brown is a realistic result.
Chase Brown is the safer start: even the most cautious projection source has Brown at 13.8 PPR points, against 12.1 for Tony Pollard.
Start the higher floor when you are favored and only need to avoid a dud.
Chase Brown has the higher ceiling: the most optimistic projection source has Brown at 17.7 PPR points, against 14.1 for Tony Pollard.
Start the higher ceiling when you are the underdog and need points more than safety.
Chase Brown plays TEN and Tony Pollard plays CIN in Week 8.
By fantasy points allowed to each position, Brown faces the 14th-softest defense against RBs and Pollard faces the 4th-toughest defense against RBs, so Chase Brown has the softer matchup.
Each projection already accounts for the opponent, so a soft matchup is a tiebreaker, not a reason to bench the higher projection.
Over his recent games Chase Brown has drawn 50% of his team's carries, and Tony Pollard 82% of his team's carries.
Tony Pollard has the bigger role, and volume is the steadiest thing a projection rests on.
These numbers are in PPR. Full PPR adds a point per catch, so it helps whichever player sees more targets.
Switch between PPR, Half PPR and Standard on the board above to rescore both players from the same sources.
Neither Chase Brown nor Tony Pollard has an injury designation for Week 8.
Designations change through the week, so check again before kickoff; this page updates with each refresh.
Each figure is the average of the projection sources that carry the player this week: StatChasers, Sleeper, ESPN, numberFire, FFToday and the betting markets (sportsbook player props). Chase Brown is projected by 6 of them and Tony Pollard by 6.
A source with no number for a player is left out of the average rather than counted as a zero.