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Should I start Ray Davis or AJ Dillon in Week 6?

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.

Updated Oct 17, 6:06 AM ET.

Week 6 verdict

Start Ray Davis over AJ Dillon

Start

Ray Davis

RB

Market projects
2.0
fantasy pts
Snap share
11%
Through Week 5
Target share
2%
Through Week 5
Sit

AJ Dillon

RB · Out

Market projects
2.1
recent weeks avg
Snap share
12%
Through Week 4
Target share
1%
Through Week 4
Start Davis or Dillon? The full Week 6 breakdown

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, 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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RB55 · BUF · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
199
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
11

RB · CAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-4

Overall rank
not on the board
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
not tiered

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Also deciding this week

The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size317 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 market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ray Davis: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 199th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry AJ Dillon at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 2.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for AJ Dillon, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, AJ Dillon has been on the field for 12 percent of CAR snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 1.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against ATL he carried 3 times for -3 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CLE he carried 4 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against DET he carried 5 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.

He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.

That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 AJ Dillon played 7 games and scored 9.1 PPR points, 1.3 a game, finishing RB113.

He carried 12 times for 60 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 21 more yards.

That came to 1.7 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ray Davis was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Ray Davis scored 3.8 PPR points a game and AJ Dillon 1.3, 2.5 a game between them.

Ray Davis finished RB61 that year and AJ Dillon RB113.

Ray Davis had 46 more carries than AJ Dillon, 58 to 12.

Ray Davis had 7 more catches than AJ Dillon, 10 to 3.

This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger snap share, 12 percent against 11 percent.

This season AJ Dillon holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 3 percent.

Byes and availability

Ray Davis is off in Week 7. No bye is listed for AJ Dillon.

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