Should I start Saquon Barkley or Jaylen Wright in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Saquon Barkley, and the board ranks him 116th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jaylen Wright, and the board ranks him 118th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 4.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 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.

The market-based projection for Jaylen Wright is 4.1 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 11 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Saquon Barkley's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

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.

Through Week 5, Jaylen Wright has been on the field for 13 percent of MIA snaps, taken 14 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 0 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 15 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 2 times for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 5 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against CIN he carried 6 times for 11 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jaylen Wright played 10 games and scored 48.2 PPR points, 4.8 a game, finishing RB70.

He carried 70 times for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 5 of 9 targets for 44 more yards.

That came to 7.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 14 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Saquon Barkley was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Jaylen Wright 4.8, 9.7 a game between them.

Saquon Barkley finished RB14 that year and Jaylen Wright RB70.

Saquon Barkley had 210 more carries than Jaylen Wright, 280 to 70.

Saquon Barkley had 32 more catches than Jaylen Wright, 37 to 5.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger snap share, 38 percent against 13 percent.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 14 percent.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Jaylen Wright.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Jaylen Wright is listed as questionable on the injury report.