Seth McGowan or Chase Brown: 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 6:01 PM 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
- 122
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
RB41 · CIN · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 17.5 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 166
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size200 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 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Chase Brown: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 166th 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 Seth McGowan is 3.2 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, 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, 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.
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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 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.
Head to head
This season Chase Brown holds the bigger snap share, 70 percent against 18 percent.
This season Chase Brown holds the bigger share of the carries, 65 percent against 13 percent.
Byes and availability
Chase Brown is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Seth McGowan.
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