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Should I start Stefon Diggs or RJ Harvey in Week 9?

Updated Nov 4, 7:11 AM ET.

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  • : RJ Harvey: Out to IR (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : RJ Harvey: Questionable to Out (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)
  • : RJ Harvey: Listed Questionable (Knee) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Stefon Diggs: 64 percent of the snaps and 22 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against RJ Harvey's 34 percent of the snaps and 15 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR23 · WAS · bye 7

2026 vs anytime td line 4-2

Market-based projection
10.4 pts a game

RB23 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs carries line 2-4

Market-based projection
8.9 pts a game Wk 8 price
Overall rank
53

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Stefon Diggs, and the board ranks him 52nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 47.

Live drafts hold no current pick on RJ Harvey, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Stefon Diggs's market-based projection is 10.4 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 9 market sources. That is the 68th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

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

This season so far

Through Week 8, Stefon Diggs has been on the field for 61 percent of WAS snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 13 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 16 of the offence's 53 third down targets, had 2 of its 11 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 21 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 8.5 air yards.

In Week 4 against IND he caught 5 of 9 targets for 35 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SF he caught 6 of 7 targets for 44 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against PHI he caught 3 of 6 targets for 38 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, RJ Harvey has been on the field for 39 percent of DEN snaps, taken 17 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 14 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 2 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 6 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 28 targets have come 2.8 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 3 times for 7 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against SEA he carried 6 times for 25 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 31 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against ARI he carried 3 times for 6 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 54 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Stefon Diggs played 17 games and scored 210.3 PPR points, 12.4 a game, finishing WR17.

He caught 85 of 102 targets for 1013 yards and 4 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 83 percent catch rate and 11.9 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 54 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Stefon Diggs scored 12.4 PPR points a game and RJ Harvey 12.2, 0.2 a game between them.

Stefon Diggs finished WR17 and RJ Harvey RB20, which are two different ladders.

Stefon Diggs is a wide receiver and RJ Harvey a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Stefon Diggs is off in Week 7 and RJ Harvey in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

RJ Harvey is listed as ir on the injury report.

What would change the answer

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

Both players in full

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