Should I start Saquon Barkley or Keon Coleman in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Saquon Barkley, and the board ranks him 120th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Keon Coleman, and the board ranks him 121st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Saquon Barkley is 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Keon Coleman's market-based projection is 7.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 107th highest figure of the 209 players with a market-based 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 7, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 33 percent of PHI snaps, taken 34 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 44 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 9 targets have come 0.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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.

In Week 7 against DAL he carried 7 times for 62 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 9 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Keon Coleman has been on the field for 68 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 24 targets have averaged 14.3 air yards.

In Week 4 against NE he caught 6 of 7 targets for 116 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against LAR he caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 59 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Keon Coleman played 13 games and scored 102.4 PPR points, 7.9 a game, finishing WR60.

He caught 38 of 59 targets for 404 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 9 red zone targets.

That came to 4-5 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 10.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 64 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Saquon Barkley was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Keon Coleman 7.9, 6.6 a game between them.

Saquon Barkley finished RB14 and Keon Coleman WR60, which are two different ladders.

Saquon Barkley is a running back and Keon Coleman a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10 and Keon Coleman in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Saquon Barkley has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.