Should I start Jalen Hurts or Saquon Barkley in Week 7?
Updated Oct 20, 9:21 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.
Start Jalen Hurts: 98 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Saquon Barkley's 28 percent of the snaps and 27 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.
QB12 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs pass yds line 2-3
- Market-based projection
- 12.3 pts a game Wk 6 price
- Overall rank
- 86
RB29 · PHI · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 87
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Their Week 7 outlook
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 Jalen Hurts, and the board ranks him 86th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Saquon Barkley, and the board ranks him 87th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Jalen Hurts, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 3.7 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.
This season so far
Through Week 5, Jalen Hurts has been on the field for 99 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 179 times and thrown 7.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 28 of 179 dropbacks and scrambled 12 times.
In Week 3 against CHI he completed 16 of 25 passes for 153 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 25 yards.
In Week 4 against LAR he completed 12 of 27 passes for 93 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 18 yards.
In Week 5 against JAX he completed 21 of 40 passes for 220 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 2 times for 2 yards.
Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.
In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Jalen Hurts played 16 games and scored 305.1 PPR points, 19.1 a game, finishing QB8.
He threw for 3224 yards on 454 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 421 yards and 8 touchdowns.
That came to 28.4 attempts a game at 7.1 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Both were available for 16 games that season.
Side by side
In 2025 Jalen Hurts scored 19.1 PPR points a game and Saquon Barkley 14.5, 4.5 a game between them.
Jalen Hurts finished QB8 and Saquon Barkley RB14, which are two different ladders.
Jalen Hurts is a quarterback and Saquon Barkley a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.
Jalen Hurts is listed as ir on the injury report.
Saquon Barkley is listed as out on the injury report.
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