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Should I start RJ Harvey or Najee Harris in Week 6?

Updated Oct 18, 10:11 PM ET.

Start RJ Harvey: 39 percent of the snaps and 16 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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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.

RB33 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 2-3

Market-based projection
8.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
99

RB35 · NYG · bye 8

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Market-based projection
8.2 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
113

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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 99th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Najee Harris, and the board ranks him 113th 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.

No season market is posted for Najee Harris, 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 5

Through Week 5, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 42 percent of DEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 19 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 5 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 1 of its 10 chances inside the five and seen 4 of its 20 two minute targets.

His 22 targets have come 2.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 2 times for 6 yards, caught 6 of 7 targets for 41 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 7 times for 25 yards, caught 10 of 10 targets for 68 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 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.

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 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.

RJ Harvey was available for 14 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Najee Harris 3.9, 8.3 a game between them.

RJ Harvey finished RB20 that year and Najee Harris RB105.

RJ Harvey had 131 more carries than Najee Harris, 146 to 15.

RJ Harvey had 44 more catches than Najee Harris, 47 to 3.

This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger snap share, 42 percent against 18 percent.

This season Najee Harris holds the bigger share of the carries, 25 percent against 17 percent.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10 and Najee Harris in Week 8, so either can cover the other's bye.

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