Ray Davis or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Ray Davis: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 169th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 194th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 14.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ray Davis is 1.9 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.

No season market is posted for Saquon Barkley, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.

This season so far

Through Week 5, Ray Davis has been on the field for 11 percent of BUF snaps, taken 3 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 35 third down targets, had 0 of its 18 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 7.0 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAC he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against NE he carried 1 time for 3 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 4 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAR he carried 2 times for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 31 yards and did not score.

Through Week 4, Saquon Barkley has been on the field for 38 percent of PHI snaps, taken 36 percent of the carries, drawn 7 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 2 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 24 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 2 against TEN he carried 4 times for 9 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 11 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against CHI he carried 15 times for 82 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against LAR he carried 2 times for 8 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 2 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ray Davis played 17 games and scored 64.1 PPR points, 3.8 a game, finishing RB61.

He carried 58 times for 275 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 10 of 13 targets for 86 more yards.

That came to 3.4 carries a game at 4.7 yards a carry and 0.6 catches a game.

He was on the field for 11 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Saquon Barkley played 16 games and scored 232.3 PPR points, 14.5 a game, finishing RB14.

He carried 280 times for 1140 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 37 of 50 targets for 273 more yards.

That came to 17-18 carries a game at 4.1 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ray Davis was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Ray Davis 3.8, 10.7 a game between them.

Ray Davis finished RB61 that year and Saquon Barkley RB14.

Saquon Barkley had 222 more carries than Ray Davis, 280 to 58.

Saquon Barkley had 27 more catches than Ray Davis, 37 to 10.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger snap share, 38 percent against 11 percent.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 3 percent.

Byes and availability

Saquon Barkley is off in Week 10. No bye is listed for Ray Davis.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.