Rico Dowdle or Demond Claiborne: who should I start in Week 5?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB58 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 6-11
- Market price
- 8.4 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 220
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
RB61 · MIN · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 229
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 14
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size287 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 220th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Demond Claiborne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 229th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The market has Rico Dowdle at 2.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 9 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market has Demond Claiborne at 2.0 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 16 market sources. That is 50 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Rico Dowdle's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
Through Week 4, Demond Claiborne has been on the field for 7 percent of MIN snaps, taken 8 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 32 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 1 target have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against CHI he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against TB he carried 3 times for 1 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against MIA he carried 3 times for 12 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.
He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Demond Claiborne is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 7 percent.
This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 8 percent.
Byes and availability
Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Demond Claiborne.
Rico Dowdle is listed as out on the injury report.
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