RJ Harvey or Ollie Gordon: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on RJ Harvey: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ollie Gordon: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price RJ Harvey at 11.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 74th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

The market has Ollie Gordon at 11.1 PPR points a game off 4 markets across 11 market sources. That is 80 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Ollie Gordon's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 4

Through Week 4, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 43 percent of DEN snaps, taken 20 percent of the carries, drawn 22 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 7 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 16 two minute targets.

His 21 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 1 against KC he carried 3 times for 18 yards, caught 4 of 4 targets for 23 yards and did not score.

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.

Through Week 4, Ollie Gordon has been on the field for 43 percent of MIA snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 5 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 28 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.

His 5 targets have come 3.2 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against SF he carried 3 times for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against KC he carried 17 times for 41 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 14 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 4 against MIN he carried 9 times for 100 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

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 Ollie Gordon played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Head to head

In 2025 RJ Harvey scored 12.2 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon 3.2, 9.0 a game between them.

RJ Harvey finished RB20 that year and Ollie Gordon RB68.

RJ Harvey had 76 more carries than Ollie Gordon, 146 to 70.

RJ Harvey had 40 more catches than Ollie Gordon, 47 to 7.

Their snap share this season is the same, 43 percent each.

This season Ollie Gordon holds the bigger share of the carries, 30 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

RJ Harvey is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Ollie Gordon.

What would change the answer

Ollie Gordon is only part priced, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.