Ashton Jeanty or Tony Pollard: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Ashton Jeanty's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 30th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

Tony Pollard's market-based projection is 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 159 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ashton Jeanty: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 14th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 25.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tony Pollard: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 72 percent of LV snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 47 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 7 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 30 targets have averaged 1.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against NO he carried 19 times for 56 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 37 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against KC he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 6 of 8 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NE he carried 10 times for 27 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tony Pollard has been on the field for 52 percent of TEN snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 42 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 6 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he carried 17 times for 74 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he carried 16 times for 48 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 2 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against HOU he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty played 17 games and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.

He carried 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 3.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tony Pollard played 17 games and scored 185.8 PPR points, 10.9 a game, finishing RB23.

He carried 242 times for 1082 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 41 targets for 206 more yards.

That came to 14.2 carries a game at 5 yards a carry and 1.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 62 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty scored 14.4 PPR points a game and Tony Pollard 10.9, 3.5 a game between them.

Ashton Jeanty finished RB11 that year and Tony Pollard RB23.

Ashton Jeanty had 24 more carries than Tony Pollard, 266 to 242.

Ashton Jeanty had 22 more catches than Tony Pollard, 55 to 33.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger snap share, 72 percent against 52 percent.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger share of the carries, 68 percent against 63 percent.

Byes and availability

Ashton Jeanty is off in Week 13 and Tony Pollard in Week 9, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

5.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.