Bucky Irving or Evan Engram: 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 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Evan Engram: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The market has Bucky Irving at 2.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

The player markets price Evan Engram at 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 81st highest figure of the 139 players the market prices.

Bucky Irving's price 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, Evan Engram has been on the field for 58 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 0 of 2 targets for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 1 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he caught 4 of 4 targets for 55 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 Evan Engram played 16 games and scored 102.8 PPR points, 6.4 a game, finishing TE29.

He caught 50 of 76 targets for 461 yards and 1 touchdown, with 10 red zone targets.

That came to 4.8 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 9.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 42 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Evan Engram was available for 6 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Evan Engram 6.4, 7.4 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 and Evan Engram TE29, which are two different ladders.

Bucky Irving is a running back and Evan Engram a tight end, 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 Evan Engram.

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.