Should I start Khalil Herbert or Seth McGowan in Week 10?
Updated Nov 10, 6:31 PM ET. Week 11 answers post Tuesday.
Week 10 verdict
Start Seth McGowan over Khalil Herbert
- Market projects
- 5.2
- recent weeks avg
- MIA D vs RB
- 25.0
- 8th most to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 22%
- Through Week 9
- Target share
- 2%
- Through Week 9
- Market projects
- 2.9
- recent weeks avg
- KC D vs RB
- 19.8
- 10th fewest to RBs (2026)
- Snap share
- 17%
- Through Week 9
- Target share
- 6%
- Through Week 9
Start Seth McGowan: 30 percent of the snaps and 28 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Khalil Herbert's 17 percent of the snaps and 9 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.
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Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.
RB · ATL · bye unlisted
2025 vs anytime td line 0-7
- Overall rank
- not on the board
RB · IND · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 1-8
- Overall rank
- not on the board
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The gap
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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.
Where the draft room stands
Our board does not carry Khalil Herbert at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
Our board does not carry Seth McGowan at all right now: live drafts have stopped taking him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for Khalil Herbert, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
No season market is posted for Seth McGowan, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Neither carries a posted market, so this page rests on the draft room and on what the two have already done.
This season through Week 9
Through Week 9, Khalil Herbert has been on the field for 17 percent of ATL snaps, taken 9 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 0 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.
His 5 targets have come 1.6 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against SF he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 19 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against TB he carried 4 times for 12 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against CIN he carried 1 time for 7 yards, caught 2 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.
Through Week 9, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 22 percent of IND snaps, taken 18 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 8 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 2 of the offence's 73 third down targets, had 1 of its 22 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 44 two minute targets.
His 6 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 7 against MIN he carried 11 times for 46 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.
In Week 8 against JAX he carried 5 times for 29 yards and did not score.
In Week 9 against DAL he carried 6 times for 45 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -3 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Khalil Herbert played 7 games and scored 6.6 PPR points, 0.9 a game, finishing RB118.
He carried 16 times for 52 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 1 of 4 targets for 4 more yards.
That came to 2.3 carries a game at 3.3 yards a carry and 0.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 4 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.
Head to head
This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger snap share, 22 percent against 17 percent.
This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger share of the carries, 18 percent against 9 percent.
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