Bucky Irving or RJ Harvey: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Bucky Irving at 11.5 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

The player markets price RJ Harvey at 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 73rd highest figure of the 183 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 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on RJ Harvey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 43 percent of DEN snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against KC he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 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 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 7 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Bucky Irving scored 13.9 PPR points a game and RJ Harvey 12.2, 1.7 a game between them.

Bucky Irving finished RB34 that year and RJ Harvey RB20.

Bucky Irving had 27 more carries than RJ Harvey, 173 to 146.

RJ Harvey had 17 more catches than Bucky Irving, 47 to 30.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 62 percent against 43 percent.

This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 58 percent against 20 percent.

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

0.0 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.