Ray Davis or Chase Brown: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ray Davis: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 170th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Chase Brown: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 191st overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 5; 2QB: ADP 19.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 1.9 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.

No season market is posted for Chase Brown, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Chase Brown has been on the field for 70 percent of CIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 4 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 7 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 0.9 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against PIT he carried 13 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against JAX he carried 9 times for 10 yards, caught 11 of 11 targets for 71 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against MIA he carried 13 times for 39 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 21 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.

He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.

That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Chase Brown played 17 games and scored 282.6 PPR points, 16.6 a game, finishing RB7.

He carried 232 times for 1019 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 69 of 88 targets for 437 more yards.

That came to 13.6 carries a game at 4.4 yards a carry and 4.1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Chase Brown scored 16.6 PPR points a game and Ray Davis 3.8, 12.9 a game between them.

Ray Davis finished RB61 that year and Chase Brown RB7.

Chase Brown had 174 more carries than Ray Davis, 232 to 58.

Chase Brown had 59 more catches than Ray Davis, 69 to 10.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 11 percent.

This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 65 percent against 3 percent.

Byes and availability

Chase Brown is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Ray Davis.