Saquon Barkley or D'Andre Swift: who should I start?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Saquon Barkley at 14.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 40th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

The player markets price D'Andre Swift at 13.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 50th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 22nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 23.

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 13; 2QB: ADP 58.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 71 percent of PHI snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 33 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 9 third down targets and seen 0 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 0.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against WAS he carried 15 times for 83 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 1, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 57 percent of CHI snaps, taken 46 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 46 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 3 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against CAR he carried 18 times for 124 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 10 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.

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 17.5 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 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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and D'Andre Swift 14.3, 0.2 a game between them.

Saquon Barkley finished RB14 that year and D'Andre Swift RB15.

Saquon Barkley had 57 more carries than D'Andre Swift, 280 to 223.

Saquon Barkley had 3 more catches than D'Andre Swift, 37 to 34.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger snap share, 71 percent against 57 percent.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger share of the carries, 65 percent against 46 percent.

Byes and availability

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

What would change the answer

1.3 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.