Najee Harris or Troy Franklin: 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 13 market sources. That is the 138th highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

The player markets price Troy Franklin at 4.2 PPR points a game, built from 4 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 158th 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 Troy Franklin: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 156th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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, Troy Franklin has been on the field for 30 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 3 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 18.0 air yards.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 1 of 2 targets for 27 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against LAR he caught 1 of 1 target for 21 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he was not given the ball.

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 Troy Franklin played 17 games and scored 177.1 PPR points, 10.4 a game, finishing WR31.

He caught 65 of 104 targets for 709 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 18 red zone targets.

That came to 6.1 targets a game, a 63 percent catch rate and 10.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 60 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Troy Franklin was available for 14 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Troy Franklin scored 10.4 PPR points a game and Najee Harris 3.9, 6.6 a game between them.

Najee Harris finished RB105 and Troy Franklin WR31, which are two different ladders.

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

What would change the answer

1.2 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.