Should I start Seth McGowan or Sean Tucker in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Seth McGowan, and the board ranks him 185th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Sean Tucker, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Seth McGowan is 2.7 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Sean Tucker is 2.6 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 13 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Seth McGowan's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season so far

Through Week 6, Seth McGowan has been on the field for 19 percent of IND snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 1 of the offence's 49 third down targets, had 0 of its 19 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 25 two minute targets.

His 4 targets have averaged 0.8 air yards.

In Week 4 against WAS he carried 6 times for 31 yards, caught 1 of 2 targets for 7 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against PIT he carried 5 times for 16 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 3 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against TEN he carried 4 times for 27 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Sean Tucker has been on the field for 5 percent of TB snaps, taken 9 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 16 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 26 third down targets, had 2 of its 5 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 21 two minute targets.

In Week 3 against MIN he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against GB he carried 3 times for 10 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 5 against DAL he carried 5 times for 18 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

Seth McGowan is a rookie, so there is no NFL season behind him to price him against.

In 2025 Sean Tucker played 17 games and scored 91.4 PPR points, 5.4 a game, finishing RB52.

He carried 86 times for 320 yards and 7 touchdowns, and caught 8 of 11 targets for 34 more yards.

That came to 5.1 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 0-1 catches a game.

He was on the field for 16 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Head to head

This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger snap share, 19 percent against 5 percent.

This season Seth McGowan holds the bigger share of the carries, 13 percent against 9 percent.