Should I start J.K. Dobbins or Marvin Harrison Jr. in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Marvin Harrison Jr., and the board ranks him 117th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 19; 2QB: ADP 41.

The market-based projections

The market has J.K. Dobbins at 6.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 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.

Marvin Harrison Jr.'s market-based projection is 6.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 119th highest figure of the 234 players with a market-based projection.

J.K. Dobbins's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 8, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 38 percent of DEN snaps, taken 50 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 22 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 66 third down targets, had 8 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 1.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 5 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 6 times for 23 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against KC he carried 7 times for 13 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Marvin Harrison Jr. has been on the field for 21 percent of HOU snaps, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 6 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 20.5 air yards.

In Week 7 against NYG he caught 1 of 4 targets for 6 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Marvin Harrison Jr. played 12 games and scored 127.8 PPR points, 10.7 a game, finishing WR49.

He caught 41 of 73 targets for 608 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 56 percent catch rate and 14.8 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 72 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Marvin Harrison Jr. was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 J.K. Dobbins scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Marvin Harrison Jr. 10.7, 0.9 a game between them.

J.K. Dobbins finished RB43 and Marvin Harrison Jr. WR49, which are two different ladders.

J.K. Dobbins is a running back and Marvin Harrison Jr. a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

J.K. Dobbins is off in Week 10 and Marvin Harrison Jr. in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

J.K. Dobbins has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.