Should I start RJ Harvey or Khalil Shakir in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 9:56 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
Latest
- : RJ Harvey: Out to IR (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : RJ Harvey: Questionable to Out (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
- : RJ Harvey: Listed Questionable (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
Start Khalil Shakir: 65 percent of the snaps and 19 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against RJ Harvey's 34 percent of the snaps and 15 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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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.
RB23 · DEN · bye 10
2026 vs carries line 2-4
- Market-based projection
- 8.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
- Overall rank
- 54
WR33 · BUF · bye 7
2026 vs anytime td line 1-6
- Market-based projection
- 8.9 pts a game
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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
Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 54th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Live drafts hold no current pick on Khalil Shakir, and the board ranks him 68th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
No season market is posted for RJ Harvey, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
Khalil Shakir's market-based projection is 8.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 8 market sources. That is the 85th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.
This season so far
Through Week 7, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 7 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 25 two minute targets.
His 28 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 7 against ARI he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
Through Week 8, Khalil Shakir has been on the field for 64 percent of BUF snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 10 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 8 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 1 of its 26 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 27 two minute targets.
His 38 targets have averaged 5.5 air yards.
In Week 5 against LAR he caught 3 of 3 targets for 80 yards and did not score.
In Week 6 against LV he caught 4 of 6 targets for 34 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against BAL he caught 5 of 6 targets for 64 yards and did not score.
Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 RJ Harvey played 17 games and scored 206.6 PPR points, 12.2 a game, finishing RB20.
He carried 146 times for 540 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 47 of 58 targets for 356 more yards.
That came to 8.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 2.8 catches a game.
He was on the field for 41 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
In 2025 Khalil Shakir played 16 games and scored 166.4 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR36.
He caught 72 of 95 targets for 719 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 13 red zone targets.
That came to 5.9 targets a game, a 76 percent catch rate and 10.0 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
RJ Harvey was available for 1 game more.
Side by side
In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Khalil Shakir 10.4, 1.8 a game between them.
RJ Harvey finished RB20 and Khalil Shakir WR36, which are two different ladders.
RJ Harvey is a running back and Khalil Shakir a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.
Byes and availability
RJ Harvey is off in Week 10 and Khalil Shakir in Week 7, so either can cover the other's bye.
RJ Harvey is listed as ir on the injury report.
What would change the answer
RJ Harvey has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
Both players in full
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