Should I start Saquon Barkley or Dallas Goedert in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 6:21 AM ET. Week 9 answers post Tuesday.

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Oct 26, 11:13 PM ET: Saquon Barkley: Listed Questionable (Back) (Sleeper injury feed)
Oct 22, 7:13 PM ET: Dallas Goedert: Listed Questionable (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Dallas Goedert: 56 percent of the snaps and 17 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Saquon Barkley's 28 percent of the snaps and 27 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 Dallas Goedert for Saquon Barkley?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Saquon Barkley projects 113 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (12.5 a game over 9 games), Dallas Goedert 59 (6.5 a game over 9 games). Saquon Barkley is listed questionable.

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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.

Saquon Barkley

RB4 · PHI · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 0-5

Market-based projection: 14.1 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 17

Dallas Goedert

TE1 · PHI · bye 10

2026 vs anytime td line 1-4

Market-based projection: 12.8 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank: 18

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The gap

Board size292 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 Saquon Barkley, and the board ranks him 17th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dallas Goedert, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

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

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

Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.

This season so far

Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Dallas Goedert has been on the field for 65 percent of PHI snaps, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 46 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 17 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 6.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against TEN he caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against JAX he caught 6 of 9 targets for 38 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he caught 6 of 8 targets for 61 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17-18 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dallas Goedert played 15 games and scored 185.1 PPR points, 12.3 a game, finishing TE7.

He caught 60 of 82 targets for 591 yards and 11 touchdowns, with 15 red zone targets.

That came to 5-6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 9.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 85 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Saquon Barkley was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Dallas Goedert 12.3, 2.2 a game between them.

Saquon Barkley finished RB14 and Dallas Goedert TE7, which are two different ladders.

Saquon Barkley is a running back and Dallas Goedert a tight end, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Drop or keep

Should I drop Dallas Goedert for Saquon Barkley?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Saquon Barkley projects 113 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (12.5 a game over 9 games), Dallas Goedert 59 (6.5 a game over 9 games). Saquon Barkley is listed questionable.
Should I drop Saquon Barkley for Dallas Goedert?
No. Keep Saquon Barkley: he projects 113 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (12.5 a game over 9 games), Dallas Goedert 59 (6.5 a game over 9 games). Saquon Barkley is listed questionable.

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