D'Andre Swift or Travis Etienne Jr.: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on D'Andre Swift: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 41st overall on the rest of his evidence.

In standard drafts he goes at ADP 13.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 197th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price D'Andre Swift at 12.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 65th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 4, D'Andre Swift has been on the field for 56 percent of CHI snaps, taken 45 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 8 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have come 2.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against MIN he carried 16 times for 45 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 54 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season D'Andre Swift holds the bigger snap share, 56 percent against 51 percent.

This season D'Andre Swift holds the bigger share of the carries, 45 percent against 38 percent.

Byes and availability

D'Andre Swift is off in Week 10 and Travis Etienne Jr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

D'Andre Swift is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Travis Etienne Jr. has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.