Should I start RJ Harvey or Colby Parkinson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 3:41 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Colby Parkinson: 56 percent of the snaps and 7 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against RJ Harvey's 41 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Colby Parkinson for RJ Harvey?

Yes, on the rest of the season. RJ Harvey projects 87 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (8.7 a game over 10 games), Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games).

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

RJ Harvey

RB45 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection: 8.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 135

Colby Parkinson

TE24 · LAR · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 5.8 pts a game

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The gap

Board size310 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 135th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colby Parkinson, and the board ranks him 136th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for RJ Harvey is 2.1 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.

Colby Parkinson's market-based projection is 5.8 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 117th highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

RJ Harvey's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 41 percent of DEN snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 15 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 43 third down targets, had 2 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 5 of its 22 two minute targets.

His 26 targets have come 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Colby Parkinson has been on the field for 62 percent of LAR snaps, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 1 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against DEN he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against BUF he caught 1 of 2 targets for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against ARI he caught 5 of 6 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Colby Parkinson played 15 games and scored 129.8 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing TE17.

He caught 43 of 56 targets for 408 yards and 8 touchdowns, with 20 red zone targets.

That came to 3.7 targets a game, a 77 percent catch rate and 10 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

RJ Harvey was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Colby Parkinson 8.7, 3.5 a game between them.

RJ Harvey finished RB20 and Colby Parkinson TE17, which are two different ladders.

RJ Harvey is a running back and Colby Parkinson a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Colby Parkinson.

What would change the answer

RJ Harvey has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Colby Parkinson for RJ Harvey?
Yes, on the rest of the season. RJ Harvey projects 87 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (8.7 a game over 10 games), Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop RJ Harvey for Colby Parkinson?
No. Keep RJ Harvey: he projects 87 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (8.7 a game over 10 games), Colby Parkinson 53 (5.3 a game over 10 games).