Start Rico Dowdle or Najee Harris? Week 6

Our Week 6 call

Start Rico Dowdle over Najee Harris in Week 6.

Market-based projections have Rico Dowdle at 6.5 points and Najee Harris at 5.5, a gap of 1.0. That is inside the noise of a single catch, so treat it as close to a coin flip. Najee Harris's number is scaled up from a partial market: not every stat the position needs is posted yet, so the rest is estimated from what is.

What the market projects

Player markets imply 6.5 fantasy points for Rico Dowdle, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market-based projection for Rico Dowdle is 23 rushing yards, 10 receiving yards and 1-2 receptions, with a 26% chance to score a touchdown (8, 6, 6 and 12 market sources).

Player markets imply 5.5 fantasy points for Najee Harris, with 70 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market-based projection for Najee Harris is 22 rushing yards, with a 21% chance to score a touchdown (10 and 13 market sources).

That puts Rico Dowdle 1.0 points ahead of Najee Harris on the market projections.

Injury status

Rico Dowdle is not on the injury report.

Najee Harris is not on the injury report.

Usage before Week 6

Through Week 2, Rico Dowdle played 42 percent of PIT snaps, took 37 percent of the carries, drew 9 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.

Rico Dowdle, Week 1 against ATL: 39 of 67 snaps, 8 carries for 15 yards, 5 targets and 2 catches for 6 yards.

Rico Dowdle, Week 2 against NE: 18 of 70 snaps, 7 carries for 22 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 22 yards.

Through Week 5, Najee Harris played 18 percent of NYG snaps, took 25 percent of the carries, drew 1 percent of the targets and had 26 percent of the red zone chances.

Najee Harris, Week 2 against LAR: 8 of 58 snaps, 4 carries for 6 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Najee Harris, Week 3 against TEN: 14 of 64 snaps, 9 carries for 52 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Najee Harris, Week 4 against ARI: 12 of 67 snaps, 9 carries for 30 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Najee Harris, Week 5 against WAS: 16 of 89 snaps, 5 carries for 9 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for 5 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025, Rico Dowdle played 17 games for CAR and scored 216.3 PPR points, 12.7 a game, finishing RB18.

He ran 236 times for 1076 yards and 6 touchdowns, and caught 39 of 50 targets for 297 yards.

He was on the field for 56 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Rico Dowdle, Week 18 of 2025 against TB: 27 of 51 snaps, 7 carries for 10 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 20 yards, 3.0 PPR points.

In 2025, Najee Harris played 3 games for LAC and scored 11.6 PPR points, 3.9 a game, finishing RB105.

He ran 15 times for 61 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 3 of 3 targets for 25 yards.

He was on the field for 21 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 6 calls

• Start Alvin Kamara over Rico Dowdle.
• Start Rico Dowdle over Chris Rodriguez Jr..
• Start Rico Dowdle over George Holani.
• Start Najee Harris over AJ Dillon.
• Start Alvin Kamara over Najee Harris.
• Start Brian Robinson over Najee Harris.