Christian McCaffrey or Bijan Robinson: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market price, 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 13, 2026 at 8:21 AM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Christian McCaffrey over Bijan Robinson
- Market projects
- 21.8
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 69%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 21.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Bijan Robinson, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
More fantasy football tools and rankings, all priced from the same board.
RB2 · SF · bye 8
2026 vs carries line 1-4
- Market price
- 21.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB13 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market price
- 21.9 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 47
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 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 Christian McCaffrey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 3rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 7.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bijan Robinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Christian McCaffrey at 21.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 2nd highest figure of the 107 players the market prices.
The market has Bijan Robinson at 6.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Bijan Robinson's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Christian McCaffrey has been on the field for 66 percent of SF snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 34 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 8 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 25 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against ARI he carried 15 times for 75 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 41 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 4 against DEN he carried 15 times for 52 yards, caught 3 of 5 targets for 18 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against SEA he carried 11 times for 68 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, Bijan Robinson has been on the field for 65 percent of ATL snaps, taken 63 percent of the carries, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 61 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 7 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 25 targets have come 1.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against GB he carried 29 times for 194 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 19 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 4 against NO he carried 19 times for 145 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 2 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 5 against BAL he carried 17 times for 86 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Christian McCaffrey played 17 games and scored 416.6 PPR points, 24.5 a game, finishing RB1.
He carried 311 times for 1202 yards and 10 touchdowns, and caught 102 of 129 targets for 924 more yards.
That came to 18.3 carries a game at 3.9 yards a carry and 6.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 83 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Bijan Robinson played 17 games and scored 370.8 PPR points, 21.8 a game, finishing RB2.
He carried 287 times for 1478 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 79 of 103 targets for 820 more yards.
That came to 16.9 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 4.6 catches a game.
He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Christian McCaffrey scored 24.5 PPR points a game and Bijan Robinson 21.8, 2.7 a game between them.
Christian McCaffrey finished RB1 that year and Bijan Robinson RB2.
Christian McCaffrey had 24 more carries than Bijan Robinson, 311 to 287.
Christian McCaffrey had 23 more catches than Bijan Robinson, 102 to 79.
This season Christian McCaffrey holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 65 percent.
This season Bijan Robinson holds the bigger share of the carries, 63 percent against 46 percent.
Byes and availability
Christian McCaffrey is off in Week 8 and Bijan Robinson in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Bijan Robinson is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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