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Should I start Ashton Jeanty or Tyler Allgeier in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 16, 9:36 PM ET.

Week 6 verdict

Start Ashton Jeanty over Tyler Allgeier

Start

Ashton Jeanty

RB · LV · vs BUF

Market projects
16.4
fantasy pts
BUF D vs RB
28.2
3rd most to RBs (2026)
Snap share
72%
Through Week 5
Target share
17%
Through Week 5
Sit

Tyler Allgeier

RB · ARI · at LAR

Market projects
12.5
fantasy pts
LAR D vs RB
20.1
15th fewest to RBs (2026)
Snap share
50%
Through Week 5
Target share
6%
Through Week 5
Start Jeanty or Allgeier? The full Week 6 breakdown

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Tyler Allgeier, 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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RB10 · LV · bye 13

2026 vs carries line 3-2

Market-based projection
16.4 pts a game
Draft pick
no consensus

RB17 · ARI · bye 14

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Overall rank
43
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
8

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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 Ashton Jeanty: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

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

The market-based projections

Ashton Jeanty's market-based projection is 16.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 31st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Tyler Allgeier is 12.5 PPR points a game off 3 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.

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

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, Tyler Allgeier has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 29 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 2 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 37 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 2.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 2 times for -1 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 8 times for 42 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DET he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 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 Tyler Allgeier played 17 games and scored 123.0 PPR points, 7.2 a game, finishing RB39.

He carried 143 times for 514 yards and 8 touchdowns, and caught 14 of 16 targets for 96 more yards.

That came to 8.4 carries a game at 3.6 yards a carry and 0.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 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 Tyler Allgeier 7.2, 7.2 a game between them.

Ashton Jeanty finished RB11 that year and Tyler Allgeier RB39.

Ashton Jeanty had 123 more carries than Tyler Allgeier, 266 to 143.

Ashton Jeanty had 41 more catches than Tyler Allgeier, 55 to 14.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger snap share, 72 percent against 50 percent.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger share of the carries, 68 percent against 29 percent.

Byes and availability

Ashton Jeanty is off in Week 13 and Tyler Allgeier in Week 14, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

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

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