Rico Dowdle or Najee Harris: who should I start in Week 6?
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.
Week 6 verdict
Start Rico Dowdle over Najee Harris
- Market projects
- 6.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 42%
- Through Week 2
- Target share
- 9%
- Through Week 2
- Market projects
- 5.5
- fantasy pts
- Snap share
- 18%
- Through Week 5
- Target share
- 1%
- Through Week 5
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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RB37 · PIT · bye 9
2025 vs rush yds line 6-11
- Overall rank
- 115
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 10
RB40 · NYG · bye unlisted
2026 vs anytime td line 0-4
- Overall rank
- 126
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 11
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Also deciding this week
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size228 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.
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Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 115th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Najee Harris: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 126th overall on the rest of his evidence.
The market-based projections
The market-based projection for Rico Dowdle is 6.3 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
The market-based projection for Najee Harris is 5.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
Rico Dowdle's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season so far
Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle has been on the field for 42 percent of PIT snaps, taken 37 percent of the carries, drawn 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 1 of the offence's 18 third down targets and seen 0 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 7 targets have averaged 0.9 air yards.
In Week 1 against ATL he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for 6 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NE he carried 7 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 22 yards and did not score.
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.
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Their 2025 seasons
In 2025 Rico Dowdle played 17 games and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.
He carried 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 more yards.
That came to 13.9 carries a game at 4.6 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.
He was on the field for 56 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
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.
Rico Dowdle was available for 14 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Najee Harris 3.9, 8.9 a game between them.
Rico Dowdle finished RB18 that year and Najee Harris RB105.
Rico Dowdle had 221 more carries than Najee Harris, 236 to 15.
Rico Dowdle had 36 more catches than Najee Harris, 39 to 3.
This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 18 percent.
This season Rico Dowdle holds the bigger share of the carries, 37 percent against 25 percent.
Byes and availability
Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Najee Harris.
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