Should I start Jaleel McLaughlin or RJ Harvey in Week 6?

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.

Updated Oct 18, 6:01 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start RJ Harvey: 39 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Jaleel McLaughlin's 9 percent of the snaps and 1 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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Jaleel McLaughlin

RB30 · CLE · bye unlisted

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Market-based projection: 9.6 pts a game
Draft pick: no draft data

RJ Harvey

RB33 · DEN · bye 10

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Market-based projection: 8.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 100
Draft pick: no draft data
Tier: 9

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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 Jaleel McLaughlin, and the board ranks him 89th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Jaleel McLaughlin's market-based projection is 9.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 89th highest figure of the 193 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaleel McLaughlin has been on the field for 10 percent of CLE snaps, taken 2 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 0 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have averaged 2.0 air yards.

In Week 3 against CAR he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against PIT he carried 1 time for 28 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against NYJ he carried 0 times for 0 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaleel McLaughlin played 8 games and scored 31.4 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB82.

He carried 37 times for 187 yards and 1 touchdown, and caught 4 of 6 targets for 27 more yards.

That came to 4.6 carries a game at 5.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 15 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

RJ Harvey was available for 9 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Jaleel McLaughlin 3.9, 8.2 a game between them.

Jaleel McLaughlin finished RB82 that year and RJ Harvey RB20.

RJ Harvey had 109 more carries than Jaleel McLaughlin, 146 to 37.

RJ Harvey had 43 more catches than Jaleel McLaughlin, 47 to 4.

This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 10 percent.

This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger share of the carries, 17 percent against 2 percent.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jaleel McLaughlin.

What would change the answer

RJ Harvey has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.

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