George Holani or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on George Holani: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 83rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 97th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

George Holani's market-based projection is 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 116th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 4.2 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 5, George Holani has been on the field for 36 percent of SEA snaps, taken 19 percent of the carries, drawn 8 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 41 third down targets, had 3 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 12 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 3 times for 10 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 48 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 7 times for 18 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 4 times for 7 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 24 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 George Holani played 11 games and scored 20.8 PPR points, 1.9 a game, finishing RB93.

He carried 22 times for 73 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 2 of 2 targets for 15 more yards.

That came to 2.0 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Saquon Barkley was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and George Holani 1.9, 12.6 a game between them.

George Holani finished RB93 that year and Saquon Barkley RB14.

Saquon Barkley had 258 more carries than George Holani, 280 to 22.

Saquon Barkley had 35 more catches than George Holani, 37 to 2.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger snap share, 38 percent against 36 percent.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 19 percent.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for George Holani.

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.