Bijan Robinson or J.K. Dobbins: who should I start 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 14, 2026 at 6:01 PM ET
Week 6 verdict
Start Bijan Robinson over J.K. Dobbins
- Market projects
- 22.2
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 68%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 20%
- Through Week 5
- Market projects
- 9.3
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 42%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 4%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for J.K. Dobbins, 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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RB3 · ATL · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 22.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB19 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Overall rank
- 39
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 6
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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 Bijan Robinson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 3rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on J.K. Dobbins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 39th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
Bijan Robinson's market-based projection is 22.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 4th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
The market has J.K. Dobbins at 11.3 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.
J.K. Dobbins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Bijan Robinson has been on the field for 68 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.
Through Week 5, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 6 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 17 times for 49 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he carried 11 times for 40 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.
He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Bijan Robinson was available for 7 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Bijan Robinson scored 21.8 PPR points a game and J.K. Dobbins 11.6, 10.2 a game between them.
Bijan Robinson finished RB2 that year and J.K. Dobbins RB43.
Bijan Robinson had 134 more carries than J.K. Dobbins, 287 to 153.
Bijan Robinson had 68 more catches than J.K. Dobbins, 79 to 11.
This season Bijan Robinson holds the bigger snap share, 68 percent against 42 percent.
This season Bijan Robinson holds the bigger share of the carries, 63 percent against 56 percent.
Byes and availability
Bijan Robinson is off in Week 11 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
J.K. Dobbins is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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