Seth McGowan or Bucky Irving: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 8:41 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB36 · IND · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-5
- Overall rank
- 107
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
RB38 · TB · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 4-1
- Market-based projection
- 11.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 116
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size189 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 107th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Bucky Irving: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 3.0 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 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.
The market-based projection for Bucky Irving is 2.2 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.
Seth McGowan's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 18 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.
In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger snap share, 61 percent against 18 percent.
This season Bucky Irving holds the bigger share of the carries, 58 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Bucky Irving is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Seth McGowan.
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