Should I start Rico Dowdle or Jadarian Price in Week 10?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Rico Dowdle, and the board ranks him 27th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jadarian Price, and the board ranks him 154th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 6 market sources. That is the 22nd highest figure of the 208 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Jadarian Price is 2.8 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.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 40 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 39 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 27 two minute targets.

His 17 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against TB he carried 7 times for 40 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 9 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against NO he carried 9 times for 41 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 45 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CLE he carried 15 times for 56 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 9, Jadarian Price has been on the field for 38 percent of SEA snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 40 third down targets, had 1 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 3.8 air yards.

In Week 3 against WAS he carried 5 times for 15 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 8 against CHI he carried 10 times for 29 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 9 against ARI he carried 9 times for 24 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 54 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.

Jadarian Price 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, 40 percent against 38 percent.

Their share of the carries this season is the same, 37 percent each.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9 and Jadarian Price in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Jadarian Price has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.