Bucky Irving or Luther Burden III: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Bucky Irving at 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

The player markets price Luther Burden III at 11.3 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Luther Burden III: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 41.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 62 percent of TB snaps, taken 58 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against CLE he carried 17 times for 89 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 1 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Luther Burden III has been on the field for 61 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 24 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 29 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.

In Week 2 against MIN he caught 3 of 7 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against PHI he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 7 of 11 targets for 61 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 1 time for 11 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 63 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 Luther Burden III played 15 games and scored 127.9 PPR points, 8.5 a game, finishing WR48.

He caught 47 of 60 targets for 652 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 4 red zone targets.

That came to 4.0 targets a game, a 78 percent catch rate and 13.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 39 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Luther Burden III was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Luther Burden III 8.5, 5.3 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 and Luther Burden III WR48, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

0.2 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 the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.