Should I start Rico Dowdle or Tyler Badie in Week 6?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 145th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Our board does not carry Tyler Badie at all right now: the consensus draft sample has dropped him and there is no player market on him this week, so he has no rank, no tier and no ADP here.

The market-based projections

Rico Dowdle's market-based projection is 5.9 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 131st highest figure of the 199 players with a market-based projection.

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

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, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

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 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.

He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.

That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Tyler Badie 2.2, 10.5 a game between them.

Rico Dowdle finished RB18 that year and Tyler Badie RB77.

Rico Dowdle had 228 more carries than Tyler Badie, 236 to 8.

Rico Dowdle had 20 more catches than Tyler Badie, 39 to 19.

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 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Rico Dowdle is off in Week 9. No bye is listed for Tyler Badie.

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Tyler Badie has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.