RJ Harvey or Saquon Barkley: 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 55th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 3; 2QB: ADP 15.

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 73rd highest figure of the 184 players the market prices.

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

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, 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 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 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 17.5 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.

RJ Harvey was available for 1 game more.

Head to head

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and RJ Harvey 12.2, 2.4 a game between them.

RJ Harvey finished RB20 that year and Saquon Barkley RB14.

Saquon Barkley had 134 more carries than RJ Harvey, 280 to 146.

RJ Harvey had 10 more catches than Saquon Barkley, 47 to 37.

This season RJ Harvey holds the bigger snap share, 43 percent against 38 percent.

This season Saquon Barkley holds the bigger share of the carries, 36 percent against 20 percent.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 10, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

Saquon Barkley is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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