Seth McGowan or Demond Claiborne: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 11, 2026 at 4:41 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Demond Claiborne, 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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RB60 · IND · bye unlisted
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- Market price
- 2.2 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB61 · MIN · bye unlisted
- Overall rank
- 241
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 18
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size289 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 Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 227th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Demond Claiborne: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 241st overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Seth McGowan at 2.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 market sources. That is the 188th highest figure of the 214 players the market prices.
The market has Demond Claiborne at 1.4 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 16 market sources. That is 60 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Demond Claiborne's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 16 percent of IND snaps, taken 11 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 9 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.
His 3 targets have averaged 1.0 air yards.
In Week 2 against KC he carried 2 times for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against HOU he carried 4 times for 14 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 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 last full seasons
Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Demond Claiborne is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger snap share, 16 percent against 7 percent.
This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger share of the carries, 11 percent against 8 percent.
What would change the answer
Demond Claiborne is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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