Najee Harris or Rashid Shaheed: who should I start in Week 5?

What the player markets price

The player markets price Najee Harris at 5.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 138th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price Rashid Shaheed at 5.0 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 144th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Najee Harris: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rashid Shaheed: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 144th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 54.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, Najee Harris has been on the field for 18 percent of NYG snaps, taken 27 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 32 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 32 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.

In Week 2 against LAR he carried 4 times for 6 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Rashid Shaheed has been on the field for 56 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 31 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 15 two minute targets.

His 15 targets have averaged 11.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against ARI he carried 1 time for 4 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against WAS he caught 2 of 3 targets for 14 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 2 times for 33 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 20 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Rashid Shaheed played 18 games and scored 156.6 PPR points, 8.7 a game, finishing WR39.

He caught 59 of 92 targets for 687 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 6 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 11.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 61 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rashid Shaheed was available for 15 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Rashid Shaheed scored 8.7 PPR points a game and Najee Harris 3.9, 4.8 a game between them.

Najee Harris finished RB105 and Rashid Shaheed WR39, which are two different ladders.

Najee Harris is a running back and Rashid Shaheed a wide receiver, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Rashid Shaheed is off in Week 11. No bye is listed for Najee Harris.

What would change the answer

0.4 points a game is the entire case. The market restates it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the market price when it does.