Should I start AJ Barner or RJ Harvey in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:16 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : RJ Harvey: Out to IR (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : RJ Harvey: Questionable to Out (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : RJ Harvey: Listed Questionable (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start AJ Barner: 89 percent of the snaps and 14 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against RJ Harvey's 34 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
TE7 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs anytime td line 1-7
- Market-based projection
- 8.2 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 41
RB11 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 43
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Live drafts hold no current pick on AJ Barner, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for AJ Barner, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for RJ Harvey, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 7
Through Week 7, AJ Barner has been on the field for 88 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 3 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 3 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 29 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.
In Week 5 against SF he caught 3 of 5 targets for 20 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against DEN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against KC he carried 3 times for 4 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 42 yards and did not score.
Through Week 7, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 AJ Barner played 17 games and scored 147.3 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE14.
He caught 52 of 68 targets for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.
That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 78 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.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and AJ Barner 8.7, 3.5 a game between them.
AJ Barner finished TE14 and RJ Harvey RB20, which are two different ladders.
AJ Barner is a tight end and RJ Harvey a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
AJ Barner is off in Week 11 and RJ Harvey in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
RJ Harvey is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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