Jaylen Waddle or RJ Harvey: who should I start in Week 6?

The market-based projections

Jaylen Waddle's market-based projection is 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 71st highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

RJ Harvey's market-based projection is 8.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 87th highest figure of the 157 players with a market-based projection.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 36.

Drafters have formed no consensus on RJ Harvey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 68 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 11 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 31 targets have averaged 9.7 air yards.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 14 yards, caught 2 of 7 targets for 10 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he caught 5 of 6 targets for 35 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 9 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 19 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 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 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 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Jaylen Waddle 12.1, 0.0 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and RJ Harvey RB20, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver and RJ Harvey 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.

What would change the answer

2.6 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the projection, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market-based projection when it does.