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Should I start Bryce Young or RJ Harvey in Week 7?

Updated Oct 24, 7:41 PM ET.

Start Bryce Young: his market-based projection is 7.9 points a game ahead of RJ Harvey's this season.

Should I drop RJ Harvey for Bryce Young?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 169 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.9 a game over 10 games), RJ Harvey 85 (9.4 a game over 9 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

QB10 · CAR · bye 5

2026 vs pass yds line 5-0

Market-based projection
17.3 pts a game

RB28 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
9.4 pts a game

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The gap

  • Price difference7.9 points a game
  • Board size335 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from the market projection.

The market-based projections

Bryce Young's market-based projection is 17.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 18th highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

RJ Harvey's market-based projection is 9.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 93rd highest figure of the 214 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bryce Young, and the board ranks him 78th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 40.

Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 80th overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Bryce Young has been on the field for 97 percent of CAR snaps, dropped back 217 times and thrown 9.2 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 35 of 217 dropbacks and scrambled 5 times.

In Week 3 against CLE he completed 26 of 47 passes for 291 yards and threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception.

In Week 4 against DET he completed 29 of 41 passes for 329 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 7 yards.

In Week 6 against PHI he completed 20 of 39 passes for 281 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 8 yards.

Through Week 6, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bryce Young played 16 games and scored 229.0 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing QB19.

He threw for 3011 yards on 478 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 216 yards and 2 touchdowns.

That came to 29.9 attempts a game at 6.3 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 96 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.

He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.

That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.

He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

RJ Harvey was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bryce Young scored 14.3 PPR points a game and RJ Harvey 12.2, 2.2 a game between them.

Bryce Young finished QB19 and RJ Harvey RB20, which are two different ladders.

Bryce Young is a quarterback and RJ Harvey a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bryce Young is off in Week 5 and RJ Harvey in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

7.9 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 live drafts hold these two again they can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the drafts rather than the market-based projection when they do.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop RJ Harvey for Bryce Young?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Bryce Young projects 169 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.9 a game over 10 games), RJ Harvey 85 (9.4 a game over 9 games).

  • Should I drop Bryce Young for RJ Harvey?

    No. Keep Bryce Young: he projects 169 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.9 a game over 10 games), RJ Harvey 85 (9.4 a game over 9 games).

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