Jahmyr Gibbs or Travis Etienne Jr.: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Updated Oct 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and neither of them has a market-based projection this season, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB42 · DET · on bye this week
2026 vs carries line 3-2
- Market-based projection
- 22.6 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 169
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
RB45 · NO · bye 8
2025 vs rush yds line 9-8
- Overall rank
- 180
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size202 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Jahmyr Gibbs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 1; 2QB: ADP 1.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Travis Etienne Jr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 180th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jahmyr Gibbs, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Travis Etienne Jr., so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jahmyr Gibbs has been on the field for 77 percent of DET snaps, taken 82 percent of the carries, drawn 18 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 45 third down targets, had 13 of its 21 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 21 two minute targets.
His 34 targets have averaged 1.4 air yards.
In Week 3 against NYJ he carried 20 times for 99 yards, caught 7 of 8 targets for 65 yards and scored 3 touchdowns.
In Week 4 against CAR he carried 15 times for 46 yards, caught 4 of 7 targets for 22 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 5 against ARI he carried 25 times for 151 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 56 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.
Through Week 3, Travis Etienne Jr. has been on the field for 51 percent of NO snaps, taken 38 percent of the carries, drawn 10 percent of the targets and had 18 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 23 two minute targets.
His 13 targets have come 0.7 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 1 against DET he carried 9 times for 46 yards, caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against BAL he carried 8 times for 25 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against LV he carried 13 times for 57 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.
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Their 2025 seasons
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.
The season feed carries no line for Travis Etienne Jr. in the last completed season.
Head to head
This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger snap share, 77 percent against 51 percent.
This season Jahmyr Gibbs holds the bigger share of the carries, 82 percent against 38 percent.
Byes and availability
Jahmyr Gibbs is off in Week 6 and Travis Etienne Jr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.
Travis Etienne Jr. is listed as ir on the injury report.
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