Should I start Zay Flowers or RJ Harvey in Week 9?
Updated Nov 4, 7:11 AM ET. Week 10 answers post Tuesday.
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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 Zay Flowers: 85 percent of the snaps and 30 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.
WR22 · BAL · bye 13
2026 vs anytime td line 3-4
- Market-based projection
- 10.5 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 Zay Flowers, and the board ranks him 51st overall on the rest of his evidence.
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
Zay Flowers's market-based projection is 10.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 67th 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, Zay Flowers has been on the field for 67 percent of BAL snaps, drawn 30 percent of the targets and had 11 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 15 of the offence's 59 third down targets, had 0 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 10 of its 38 two minute targets.
His 58 targets have averaged 8.2 air yards.
In Week 6 against CLE he carried 1 time for 1 yards, caught 6 of 11 targets for 66 yards and did not score.
In Week 7 against CIN he caught 8 of 11 targets for 137 yards and scored 1 touchdown.
In Week 8 against BUF he caught 0 of 5 targets for 0 yards and did not score.
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 Zay Flowers played 17 games and scored 243.3 PPR points, 14.3 a game, finishing WR7.
He caught 86 of 118 targets for 1211 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 10 red zone targets.
That came to 6.9 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 14.1 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 86 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 Zay Flowers scored 14.3 PPR points a game and RJ Harvey 12.2, 2.2 a game between them.
Zay Flowers finished WR7 and RJ Harvey RB20, which are two different ladders.
Zay Flowers 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
Zay Flowers is off in Week 13 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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