Tyler Goodson or Rico Dowdle: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Goodson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 166th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Rico Dowdle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 167th overall on the rest of his evidence.

What the player markets price

The player markets price Tyler Goodson at 3.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 165th highest figure of the 183 players the market prices.

The market has Rico Dowdle at 2.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 4, Tyler Goodson has been on the field for 18 percent of DAL snaps, taken 16 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 22 third down targets, had 0 of its 12 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 19 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 3.5 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against BAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against HOU he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Goodson played 11 games and scored 5.2 PPR points, 0.5 a game, finishing RB121.

He carried 9 times for 24 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 8 more yards.

That came to 0.8 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Rico Dowdle was available for 6 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Rico Dowdle scored 12.7 PPR points a game and Tyler Goodson 0.5, 12.3 a game between them.

Tyler Goodson finished RB121 that year and Rico Dowdle RB18.

Rico Dowdle had 227 more carries than Tyler Goodson, 236 to 9.

Rico Dowdle had 37 more catches than Tyler Goodson, 39 to 2.

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 16 percent.

Byes and availability

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

Rico Dowdle is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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