D'Andre Swift or C.J. Stroud: who should I start in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for D'Andre Swift, 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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RB30 · CHI · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 4-1
- Market-based projection
- 18.2 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 90
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 7
QB13 · HOU · bye 8
2026 vs pass yds line 4-1
- Market-based projection
- 16.8 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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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 D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 90th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.
Drafters have formed no consensus on C.J. Stroud: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 91st overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 30.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for D'Andre Swift is 5.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.
C.J. Stroud's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 23rd highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.
D'Andre Swift's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 56 percent of CHI snaps, taken 44 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 10 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 28 two minute targets.
His 16 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 3 against PHI he carried 20 times for 84 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against NYJ he carried 15 times for 58 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 16 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against GB he carried 9 times for 43 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 30 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 5, C.J. Stroud has been on the field for 100 percent of HOU snaps, dropped back 202 times and thrown 9.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 29 of 202 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.
In Week 3 against IND he completed 16 of 27 passes for 167 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 10 yards.
In Week 4 against DAL he completed 21 of 29 passes for 347 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 12 yards.
In Week 5 against TEN he completed 26 of 34 passes for 261 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 7 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 D'Andre Swift played 16 games and scored 228.6 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing RB15.
He carried 223 times for 1087 yards and 9 touchdowns, and caught 34 of 48 targets for 299 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.9 yards a carry and 2.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 58 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 C.J. Stroud played 14 games and scored 216.5 PPR points, 15.5 a game, finishing QB21.
He threw for 3041 yards on 423 attempts with 19 touchdowns and 8 interceptions, and ran for 209 yards and 1 touchdown.
That came to 30.2 attempts a game at 7.2 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 93 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
D'Andre Swift was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 C.J. Stroud scored 15.5 PPR points a game and D'Andre Swift 14.3, 1.2 a game between them.
D'Andre Swift finished RB15 and C.J. Stroud QB21, which are two different ladders.
D'Andre Swift is a running back and C.J. Stroud a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10 and C.J. Stroud in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
D'Andre Swift is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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