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Tyler Badie or Tyler Goodson: who should I start in Week 6?

Neither man carries a season projection right now, so this is their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, side by side.

Updated Oct 16, 1:26 AM ET.

Week 6 verdict

Start Tyler Badie over Tyler Goodson

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Tyler Badie

RB · Questionable

Market projects
4.5
fantasy pts
Snap share
18%
Through Week 5
Target share
6%
Through Week 5
Market projects
2.5
fantasy pts
Snap share
14%
Through Week 5
Target share
2%
Through Week 5
Start Badie or Goodson? The full Week 6 breakdown

Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole projection for either of them, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.

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RB43 · DEN · bye unlisted

2026 vs anytime td line 0-5

Overall rank
138
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
12

RB53 · DAL · bye unlisted

2025 vs anytime td line 0-11

Overall rank
164
Draft pick
no consensus
Tier
12

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The gap

  • Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
  • Board size228 draftable players

Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the market price and nothing else.

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Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Badie: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 138th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Tyler Goodson: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 164th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Tyler Badie is 4.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 12 market sources. That is 40 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 Tyler Goodson is 2.5 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.

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

This season through Week 5

Through Week 5, Tyler Badie has been on the field for 18 percent of DEN snaps, taken 5 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 6 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 34 third down targets, had 0 of its 14 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 18 two minute targets.

His 7 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against LAR he carried 1 time for 2 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 12 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against SF he carried 2 times for 7 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 32 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against LAC he carried 1 time for 6 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

Through Week 5, Tyler Goodson has been on the field for 14 percent of DAL snaps, taken 13 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 30 third down targets, had 0 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 26 two minute targets.

His 2 targets have come 4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against BAL he carried 6 times for 22 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for -5 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against HOU he carried 3 times for 12 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against TB he carried 0 times for 0 yards and did not score.

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Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tyler Badie played 16 games and scored 35.4 PPR points, 2.2 a game, finishing RB77.

He carried 8 times for 23 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 19 of 31 targets for 141 more yards.

That came to 0-1 carries a game at 2.9 yards a carry and 1.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 18 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Tyler Goodson played 11 games and scored 5.2 PPR points, 0.5 a game, finishing RB121.

He carried 9 times for 24 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 2 of 3 targets for 8 more yards.

That came to 0.8 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 0.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 5 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Tyler Badie was available for 5 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Tyler Badie scored 2.2 PPR points a game and Tyler Goodson 0.5, 1.7 a game between them.

Tyler Badie finished RB77 that year and Tyler Goodson RB121.

Tyler Goodson had 1 more carries than Tyler Badie, 9 to 8.

Tyler Badie had 17 more catches than Tyler Goodson, 19 to 2.

This season Tyler Badie holds the bigger snap share, 18 percent against 14 percent.

This season Tyler Goodson holds the bigger share of the carries, 13 percent against 5 percent.

Byes and availability

Tyler Badie is listed as questionable on the injury report.

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