Should I start RJ Harvey or Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 9?
Updated Nov 3, 6:26 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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- : RJ Harvey: Out to IR (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : RJ Harvey: Questionable to Out (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : RJ Harvey: Listed Questionable (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Jahmyr Gibbs: 82 percent of the snaps and 87 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against RJ Harvey's 34 percent of the snaps and 15 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.
RB11 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 43
RB12 · DET · bye 6
2026 vs carries line 5-2
- Market-based projection
- 23.1 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 44
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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 RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 43rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Jahmyr Gibbs, and the board ranks him 44th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for RJ Harvey, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market-based projection for Jahmyr Gibbs is 8.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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.
This season so far
Through Week 7, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 79 percent of DET snaps, taken 80 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 51 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 10 of the offence's 60 third down targets, had 14 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 30 two minute targets.
His 44 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 25 times for 151 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 56 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
In Week 7 against GB he carried 29 times for 116 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 27 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against MIN he carried 23 times for 153 yards, caught 2 of 4 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.
He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.
That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs played 17 games and scored 366.9 PPR points, 21.6 a game, finishing RB3.
He carried 243 times for 1223 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 77 of 94 targets for 616 more yards.
That came to 14.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 4-5 catches a game.
He was on the field for 67 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Both were available for 17 games that season.
Head to head
In 2025 Jahmyr Gibbs scored 21.6 PPR points a game and RJ Harvey 12.2, 9.4 a game between them.
RJ Harvey finished RB20 that year and Jahmyr Gibbs RB3.
Jahmyr Gibbs had 97 more carries than RJ Harvey, 243 to 146.
Jahmyr Gibbs had 30 more catches than RJ Harvey, 77 to 47.
This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger snap share, 79 percent against 39 percent.
This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger share of the carries, 80 percent against 17 percent.
Byes and availability
RJ Harvey is off in Week 10 and Jahmyr Gibbs in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
RJ Harvey is listed as ir on the injury report.
Both players in full
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