Saquon Barkley or Aaron Rodgers: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Rodgers: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Aaron Rodgers's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 46th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Saquon Barkley's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Aaron Rodgers has been on the field for 98 percent of PIT snaps, dropped back 200 times and thrown 8.6 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 32 of 200 dropbacks and scrambled 3 times.

In Week 3 against CIN he completed 19 of 33 passes for 292 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 12 yards.

In Week 4 against CLE he completed 22 of 40 passes for 299 yards and threw 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.

In Week 5 against IND he completed 22 of 31 passes for 235 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17-18 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers played 16 games and scored 234.1 PPR points, 14.6 a game, finishing QB18.

He threw for 3322 yards on 498 attempts with 24 touchdowns and 7 interceptions, and ran for 61 yards and 1 touchdown.

That came to 31.1 attempts a game at 6.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 95 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Aaron Rodgers scored 14.6 PPR points a game and Saquon Barkley 14.5, 0.1 a game between them.

Saquon Barkley finished RB14 and Aaron Rodgers QB18, which are two different ladders.

Saquon Barkley is a running back and Aaron Rodgers a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10 and Aaron Rodgers in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Saquon Barkley is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.