Jeremiyah Love or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jeremiyah Love: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 42nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 10; 2QB: ADP 29.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 63rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

What the player markets price

The player markets price Jeremiyah Love at 13.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 54th highest figure of the 199 players the market prices.

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

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Jeremiyah Love has been on the field for 50 percent of ARI snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 27 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 37 third down targets, had 2 of its 16 chances inside the five and seen 2 of its 33 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 0.5 air yards.

In Week 2 against SEA he carried 9 times for 29 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 16 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against SF he carried 21 times for 90 yards, caught 5 of 5 targets for 19 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against NYG he carried 14 times for 63 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -8 yards and did not score.

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

Jeremiyah Love is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

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 17.5 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.

Head to head

This season Jeremiyah Love holds the bigger snap share, 50 percent against 38 percent.

This season Jeremiyah Love holds the bigger share of the carries, 54 percent against 36 percent.

Byes and availability

Jeremiyah Love is off in Week 14 and Saquon Barkley in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Jeremiyah Love is listed as questionable on the injury report.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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