Should I start Najee Harris or Justin Herbert in Week 6?
Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for Najee Harris, 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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RB41 · NYG · bye 8
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- Overall rank
- 139
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 12
QB27 · LAC · bye 7
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- Market-based projection
- 13.7 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size316 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 stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Najee Harris: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 139th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Justin Herbert: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 140th overall on the rest of his evidence.
By format he goes standard: ADP 23; 2QB: ADP 12.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Najee Harris is 5.9 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.
Justin Herbert's market-based projection is 13.7 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 53rd highest figure of the 206 players with a market-based projection.
Najee Harris's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 5
Through Week 5, Najee Harris has been on the field for 18 percent of NYG snaps, taken 25 percent of the carries, drawn 1 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 2 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.
His 1 target have averaged 2.0 air yards.
In Week 3 against TEN he carried 9 times for 52 yards and did not score.
In Week 4 against ARI he carried 9 times for 30 yards and did not score.
In Week 5 against WAS he carried 5 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 5 yards and did not score.
Through Week 5, Justin Herbert has been on the field for 100 percent of LAC snaps, dropped back 175 times and thrown 8.5 air yards an attempt.
He has been sacked or hit on 36 of 175 dropbacks and scrambled 16 times.
In Week 3 against BUF he completed 20 of 34 passes for 226 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 4 times for 17 yards.
In Week 4 against SEA he completed 19 of 31 passes for 189 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions and ran 6 times for 40 yards.
In Week 5 against DEN he completed 14 of 23 passes for 121 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 6 times for 54 yards.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Najee Harris played 3 games and scored 11.6 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB105.
He carried 15 times for 61 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 25 more yards.
That came to 5.0 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 1.0 catches a game.
He was on the field for 21 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Justin Herbert played 16 games and scored 299.9 PPR points, 18.7 a game, finishing QB10.
He threw for 3727 yards on 512 attempts with 26 touchdowns and 13 interceptions, and ran for 498 yards and 2 touchdowns.
That came to 32.0 attempts a game at 7.3 yards an attempt.
He was on the field for 97 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Justin Herbert was available for 13 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Justin Herbert scored 18.7 PPR points a game and Najee Harris 3.9, 14.9 a game between them.
Najee Harris finished RB105 and Justin Herbert QB10, which are two different ladders.
Najee Harris is a running back and Justin Herbert a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
Najee Harris is off in Week 8 and Justin Herbert in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Najee Harris is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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