Should I start Jadarian Price or Saquon Barkley in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:41 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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Week 9 verdict
Start Saquon Barkley over Jadarian Price
- Market projects
- 12.7
- recent weeks avg
- NYG D vs RB
- 19.8
- 11th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 33%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 8
- Market projects
- 10.1
- fantasy pts
- ARI D vs RB
- 20.7
- 14th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 39%
- Through Week 8
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 8
Start Saquon Barkley over Jadarian Price in Week 9.
Should I drop Saquon Barkley for Jadarian Price?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jadarian Price projects 77 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (9.6 a game over 8 games), Saquon Barkley 61 (7.6 a game over 8 games). For Week 9 the call starts Saquon Barkley over Jadarian Price. So make the move after his Week 9 game.
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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB22 · SEA · bye 11
2026 vs carries line 1-3
- Market-based projection
- 10.1 pts a game
RB41 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 1-5
- Market-based projection
- 11.3 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 118
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The gap
- Board size306 draftable players
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 Jadarian Price, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Saquon Barkley, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.
The market-based projections
Jadarian Price's market-based projection is 10.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 72nd highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 3.4 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.
Saquon Barkley's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 8
Through Week 8, Jadarian Price has been on the field for 39 percent of SEA snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 19 two minute targets.
His 11 targets have averaged 4.1 air yards.
In Week 2 against ARI he carried 13 times for 52 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 8 yards and did not score.
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.
Through Week 8, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 33 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 4 of its 13 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 41 two minute targets.
His 10 targets have averaged 1.3 air yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against DAL he carried 7 times for 62 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against WAS he carried 13 times for 30 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 24 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
Jadarian Price is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
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.
Head to head
This season Jadarian Price holds the bigger snap share, 39 percent against 33 percent.
This season Jadarian Price holds the bigger share of the carries, 39 percent against 36 percent.
Byes and availability
Jadarian Price is off in Week 11 and Saquon Barkley in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Saquon Barkley has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
Drop or keep
Should I drop Saquon Barkley for Jadarian Price?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Jadarian Price projects 77 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (9.6 a game over 8 games), Saquon Barkley 61 (7.6 a game over 8 games). For Week 9 the call starts Saquon Barkley over Jadarian Price. So make the move after his Week 9 game.
Should I drop Jadarian Price for Saquon Barkley?
No. Keep Jadarian Price: he projects 77 market-implied PPR points from Week 9 through Week 17 (9.6 a game over 8 games), Saquon Barkley 61 (7.6 a game over 8 games). For Week 9 the call starts Saquon Barkley over Jadarian Price.
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