Bucky Irving or Elic Ayomanor: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Elic Ayomanor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 2.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Elic Ayomanor's market-based projection is 4.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 105th highest figure of the 146 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 61 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 2 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have come 1.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 16 times for 61 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 21 times for 165 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 10 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 5, Elic Ayomanor has been on the field for 60 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Bucky Irving played 10 games and scored 138.5 PPR points, 13.9 a game, finishing RB34.

He carried 173 times for 588 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 30 of 35 targets for 277 more yards.

That came to 17.3 carries a game at 3.4 yards a carry and 3.0 catches a game.

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

In 2025 Elic Ayomanor played 16 games and scored 116.5 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR55.

He caught 41 of 89 targets for 515 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 46 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Elic Ayomanor was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Elic Ayomanor 7.3, 6.6 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 and Elic Ayomanor WR55, which are two different ladders.

Bucky Irving is a running back and Elic Ayomanor a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Elic Ayomanor.

What would change the answer

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