Romeo Doubs or Saquon Barkley: who should I start in Week 5?

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Romeo Doubs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 53rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Saquon Barkley: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 55th 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 Romeo Doubs at 11.2 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 15 market sources. That is the 78th highest figure of the 183 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, Romeo Doubs has been on the field for 65 percent of NE snaps, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 19 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 6 of the offence's 33 third down targets, had 1 of its 8 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 14 two minute targets.

His 20 targets have averaged 16.1 air yards.

In Week 2 against PIT he caught 3 of 4 targets for 96 yards and did not score.

In Week 3 against JAX he caught 3 of 4 targets for 49 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against BUF he caught 6 of 9 targets for 58 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

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 Romeo Doubs played 16 games and scored 165.4 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing WR37.

He caught 55 of 85 targets for 724 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 5.3 targets a game, a 65 percent catch rate and 13.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 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.

Both were available for 16 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Saquon Barkley scored 14.5 PPR points a game and Romeo Doubs 10.3, 4.2 a game between them.

Romeo Doubs finished WR37 and Saquon Barkley RB14, which are two different ladders.

Romeo Doubs is a wide receiver and Saquon Barkley a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Romeo Doubs is off in Week 11 and Saquon Barkley in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

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.