Josh Allen or J.K. Dobbins: who should I start in Week 6?
Neither man carries a posted season price right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
Updated Oct 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM ET
J.K. Dobbins is not in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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QB1 · BUF · bye 7
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- Market price
- 23.1 pts a game Wk 5 price
- Overall rank
- 26
- Draft pick
- ADP 1
- Tier
- 1
RB9 · DEN · bye 10
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- Overall rank
- 28
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 5
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size168 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room has them
Josh Allen goes at ADP 1, an average pick of 24.3, and the board has him QB1 in tier 1.
His earliest recorded pick is 1 and his latest 37, a standard deviation of 9.0 picks.
He appears in 16 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 2.
Drafters have formed no consensus on J.K. Dobbins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 28th overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
No season market is posted for Josh Allen, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
The market has J.K. Dobbins at 11.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
This season so far
Through Week 4, Josh Allen has been on the field for 100 percent of BUF snaps, dropped back 136 times and thrown 9.8 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 21 of 136 dropbacks and scrambled 8 times.
In Week 2 against DET he completed 20 of 31 passes for 248 yards, threw 3 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 11 times for 72 yards.
In Week 3 against LAC he completed 16 of 26 passes for 204 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 2 interceptions and ran 7 times for 23 yards.
In Week 4 against NE he completed 23 of 33 passes for 253 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 5 times for 4 yards.
Through Week 5, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 40 percent of DEN snaps, taken 56 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 28 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 6 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 20 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have averaged 0.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against LAR he carried 17 times for 49 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 4 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against SF he carried 11 times for 40 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 12 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 18 times for 68 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Josh Allen played 17 games and scored 374.6 PPR points, 22.0 a game, finishing QB1.
He threw for 3668 yards on 460 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, and ran for 579 yards and 14 touchdowns.
That came to 27.1 attempts a game at 8.0 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 98 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.
He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Allen was available for 7 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Josh Allen scored 22.0 PPR points a game and J.K. Dobbins 11.6, 10.4 a game between them.
Josh Allen finished QB1 and J.K. Dobbins RB43, which are two different ladders.
Josh Allen is a quarterback and J.K. Dobbins a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Josh Allen is off in Week 7 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
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