Should I start Najee Harris or Pierre Strong in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 8:31 PM ET. Week 7 answers post Tuesday.

Start Pierre Strong: 41 percent of the snaps and 21 percent of the carries over their last 3 games, against Najee Harris's 19 percent of the snaps and 26 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.

Najee Harris

RB35 · NYG · bye 8

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Market-based projection: 8.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank: 112

Pierre Strong

RB37 · GB · bye unlisted

Market-based projection: 7.3 pts a game

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The gap

Board size330 draftable players

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 Najee Harris, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Pierre Strong, and the board ranks him 132nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

No season market is posted for Najee Harris, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

Pierre Strong's market-based projection is 7.3 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 50th highest figure of the 78 players with a market-based projection.

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, Pierre Strong has been on the field for 41 percent of GB snaps, taken 21 percent of the carries, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 9 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have come 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against CHI he carried 5 times for 7 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

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.

The season feed carries no line for Pierre Strong in the last completed season.

Head to head

This season Pierre Strong holds the bigger snap share, 41 percent against 18 percent.

This season Najee Harris holds the bigger share of the carries, 25 percent against 21 percent.

Byes and availability

Najee Harris is off in Week 8. No bye is listed for Pierre Strong.

What would change the answer

Najee Harris has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.