Should I start Bucky Irving or Ollie Gordon II in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bucky Irving, and the board ranks him 16th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ollie Gordon II, and the board ranks him 47th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 15.8 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.

Ollie Gordon II's market-based projection is 9.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 11 market sources. That is the 86th highest figure of the 214 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 so far

Through Week 6, Bucky Irving has been on the field for 65 percent of TB snaps, taken 61 percent of the carries, drawn 11 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 41 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 6 against PIT he carried 19 times for 46 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 48 percent of MIA snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 5 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 18 times for 88 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ollie Gordon II was available for 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 10.7 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 that year and Ollie Gordon II RB68.

Bucky Irving had 103 more carries than Ollie Gordon II, 173 to 70.

Bucky Irving had 23 more catches than Ollie Gordon II, 30 to 7.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 65 percent against 48 percent.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 61 percent against 36 percent.

Byes and availability

Bucky Irving is off in Week 10 and Ollie Gordon II in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.

Bucky Irving is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Bucky Irving has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.