Seth McGowan or Elic Ayomanor: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Seth McGowan: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 103rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Elic Ayomanor: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 104th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 3.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 9 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Elic Ayomanor's market-based projection is 4.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 103rd highest figure of the 145 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 18 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 0 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

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.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Elic Ayomanor has been on the field for 60 percent of TEN snaps, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 29 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have averaged 12.2 air yards.

In Week 3 against NYG he caught 1 of 3 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BAL he caught 1 of 1 target for 22 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against HOU he caught 1 of 2 targets for 17 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Elic Ayomanor played 16 games and scored 116.5 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR55.

He caught 41 of 89 targets for 515 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 8 red zone targets.

That came to 5.6 targets a game, a 46 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 79 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Side by side

Seth McGowan is a running back and Elic Ayomanor a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

What would change the answer

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