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Should I start George Holani or Seth McGowan in Week 8?

Updated Oct 27, 2:16 PM ET.

Week 8 verdict

Start

RB · SEA · vs CHI

Market projects
5.2
recent weeks avg
CHI D vs RB
18.6
6th fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Limited
38 of 100 at RB
Snap share
40%
Through Week 7
Target share
7%
Through Week 7
Sit

RB · IND · at JAX

Market projects
2.9
recent weeks avg
JAX D vs RB
17.3
2nd fewest to RBs (2026)
Upside
Limited
26 of 100 at RB
Snap share
21%
Through Week 7
Target share
2%
Through Week 7
Start Holani or McGowan? The full Week 8 breakdown

Start George Holani: 46 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Seth McGowan's 27 percent of the snaps and 23 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

RB45 · SEA · bye 11

2026 vs carries line 2-5

Market-based projection
4.6 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
183

RB · IND · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-7

Overall rank
not on the board

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on George Holani, and the board ranks him 183rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Seth McGowan at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for George Holani is 1.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 1 market source. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

No season market is posted for Seth McGowan, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, George Holani has been on the field for 40 percent of SEA snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 62 third down targets, had 5 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 14 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 5 times for 20 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against KC he carried 5 times for 11 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 21 percent of IND snaps, taken 16 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 56 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 30 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have averaged 0.6 air yards.

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

In Week 6 against TEN he carried 4 times for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against MIN he carried 11 times for 46 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.

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

Head to head

This season George Holani holds the bigger snap share, 40 percent against 21 percent.

This season George Holani holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 16 percent.

Byes and availability

George Holani is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Seth McGowan.

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