Aaron Jones Sr. or RJ Harvey: who should I start?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on RJ Harvey, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB12 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 4-8
- Books price
- 15.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB45 · DEN · bye 10
2025 vs carries line 5-12
- Overall rank
- 150
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Jones Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 137.
Drafters have formed no consensus on RJ Harvey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 150th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 134.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 36th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
The books have RJ Harvey at 4.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 15 books. That is 50 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
RJ Harvey's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 46 percent of MIN snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.
His 1 target have averaged 4.0 air yards.
In Week 1 against GB he carried 12 times for 40 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 1, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 51 percent of DEN snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have come 5.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against KC he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.
He carried 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 more yards.
That came to 11.0 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.
He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.
That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
RJ Harvey was available for 5 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 2.3 a game between them.
Aaron Jones Sr. finished RB41 that year and RJ Harvey RB20.
RJ Harvey had 14 more carries than Aaron Jones Sr., 146 to 132.
RJ Harvey had 19 more catches than Aaron Jones Sr., 47 to 28.
This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger snap share, 51 percent against 46 percent.
This season Aaron Jones Sr. holds the bigger share of the carries, 39 percent against 21 percent.
Byes and availability
Aaron Jones Sr. is off in Week 6 and RJ Harvey in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
RJ Harvey is listed as questionable on the injury report.
What would change the answer
RJ Harvey is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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