Start Tyjae Spears or Najee Harris? Week 6

Our Week 6 call

Start Tyjae Spears over Najee Harris in Week 6.

Market-based projections have Tyjae Spears at 6.4 points and Najee Harris at 4.4, a gap of 2.0. No player market is posted for Najee Harris this week yet, so his 4.4 is the average of his market-based projections in Weeks 3, 4 and 5 (3.6, 4.5 and 5.3); the call is rebuilt when his market posts.

What the market projects

No Week 6 player market is posted for Najee Harris yet. His market-based projections were 3.6, 4.5 and 5.3 points in Weeks 3, 4 and 5, an average of 4.4, which stands in until his Week 6 market posts.

The market gives Najee Harris a 21% chance to score a touchdown (13 market sources).

Player markets imply 6.4 fantasy points for Tyjae Spears, with 100 percent of the markets a RB needs posted.

The market-based projection for Tyjae Spears is 13 rushing yards, 15 receiving yards and 2-3 receptions, with a 18% chance to score a touchdown (10, 12, 10 and 12 market sources).

That puts Tyjae Spears 2.0 points ahead of Najee Harris on these projections.

Injury status

Najee Harris is not on the injury report.

Tyjae Spears is listed as questionable with a knee injury.

Usage before Week 6

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.

Through Week 5, Tyjae Spears played 44 percent of TEN snaps, took 16 percent of the carries, drew 11 percent of the targets and had 5 percent of the red zone chances.

Tyjae Spears, Week 2 against PHI: 19 of 53 snaps, 7 carries for 41 yards, 2 targets and 2 catches for 29 yards.

Tyjae Spears, Week 3 against NYG: 28 of 60 snaps, 3 carries for 5 yards, 0 targets and 0 catches for 0 yards.

Tyjae Spears, Week 4 against BAL: 23 of 64 snaps, 2 carries for 7 yards, 1 target and 1 catch for -1 yards.

Tyjae Spears, Week 5 against HOU: 34 of 63 snaps, 2 carries for 0 yards, 9 targets and 9 catches for 28 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025, Tyjae Spears played 13 games for TEN and scored 111.7 PPR points, 8.6 a game, finishing RB44.

He ran 72 times for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 45 of 50 targets for 264 yards.

He was on the field for 46 percent of the offense's snaps in the games he played.

Their other Week 6 calls

• Start Najee Harris over AJ Dillon.
• Start Brian Robinson over Najee Harris.
• Start Chris Rodriguez Jr. over Najee Harris.
• Start Alvin Kamara over Tyjae Spears.
• Start Bhayshul Tuten over Tyjae Spears.
• Start Blake Corum over Tyjae Spears.