Saquon Barkley or Darnell Washington: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 114th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Drafters have formed no consensus on Darnell Washington: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

Darnell Washington's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 111th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

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

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 5, Darnell Washington has been on the field for 65 percent of PIT snaps, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 16 targets have averaged 5.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against CIN he caught 3 of 4 targets for 67 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against CLE he caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 12 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 Darnell Washington played 16 games and scored 73.4 PPR points, 4.6 a game, finishing TE39.

He caught 31 of 43 targets for 364 yards and 1 touchdown, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 2.7 targets a game, a 72 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 57 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Darnell Washington 4.6, 9.9 a game between them.

Saquon Barkley finished RB14 and Darnell Washington TE39, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Darnell Washington.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Saquon Barkley is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.