Harvey
RB · DEN vs SF
Proj pts
11.8pts
market
Price
RB · SEA vs LAC
QuestionableProj pts
9.7pts
market
Jadarian Price or RJ Harvey: who should I start in Week 4?
Start RJ Harvey. Bench Jadarian Price. RJ Harvey leads at 11.8. Jadarian Price is the first one out, 2.1 short.
Crowd: started Harvey 30% · Price 34%
Availability & news
Jadarian PriceQuestionable
Price was limited in practice Wednesday due to a chest injury, Bob Condotta of The Seattle Times reports.(rotowire, Sep 30, 2026)
Highlights
Pros
- Run-funnel matchupRun-funnel vs RB
- Spike upside21.7 ceiling
- Big-play upside31% boom weeks
Cons
- Committee back23% of touches
- Negative game scriptTrailing
Pros
- Positive game scriptFavored
- Big-play upside33% boom weeks
Cons
- Below your start line2.1 pts short
- Committee back22% of touches
Some recent form, opportunity and matchup figures still lean on the 2025 season (not enough games played this season yet).
Week 4 · Updated Tue 6:00 AM ET
Why RJ Harvey
Start RJ Harvey — projects 11.8, a run-funnel matchup vs SF, but the role is cooling.
RJ Harvey projects 11.8 points on a 8.1–21.7 range. The matchup grades as run-funnel against SF. Usage: carries / game at 8.6. Net: RJ Harvey is start this week.
Working for Harvey: Run-funnel matchup (Run-funnel vs RB), Spike upside (21.7 ceiling), Big-play upside (31% boom weeks).
Working against Harvey: Committee back (23% of touches), Negative game script (Trailing).
Where Harvey leads the head-to-head: Projection (11.8 vs 9.7); Touch share (23% vs 22%); Opportunity score (10.4 vs 9.2); Matchup grade (recency weighted) (B+ vs D-); Last 3 avg (7.7 vs 4.7); Last 5 avg (12.8 vs 4.7); Bust rate (25% vs 33%); Touches / game (11.4 vs 10.7); Target share (10% vs 8%); Opportunity score (exp pts) (10.4 vs 9.2); Snap share (42% vs 37%); Goal line carries (10 vs 1); Red zone carries (31 vs 3); Grade vs RB (recency weighted) (B+ vs D-).
Why Jadarian Price
Sit Jadarian Price — projects 9.7, a tough matchup vs LAC.
Jadarian Price projects 9.7 points. The matchup grades as tough against LAC. Usage: carries / game at 9.3. Net: Jadarian Price is a bench this week.
Working for Price: Positive game script (Favored), Big-play upside (33% boom weeks).
Working against Price: Below your start line (2.1 pts short), Committee back (22% of touches).
Where Price leads the head-to-head: Implied team total (24.8 vs 22.3); vs season (+0.0 vs -0.1); Consistency (42% vs 40%); Boom rate (33% vs 31%); Carries / game (9.3 vs 8.6); Yards per carry (4.2 vs 3.7); Implied total (24.8 vs 22.3).
Recent form
RJ Harvey's last 5 games: PPR points 22.1, 18.6, 4.3, 8.1, 10.7 (oldest to newest).
Jadarian Price's last 3 games: PPR points 1.2, 5, 7.8 (low to high; the card does not say which came first).
Harvey has already beaten Price's 9.7 projection in 3 of his 5; Price has beaten Harvey's 11.8 in 0 of his 3.
At least 1 of these 5 were played before the 2026 season — the card does not date them.
Matchup
RJ Harvey (DEN) faces SF, kickoff Sun 4:25 PM ET. The matchup is rated run-funnel. Betting line: implied team total 22.3, spread +3.0.
Jadarian Price (SEA) faces LAC, kickoff Sun 4:25 PM ET. The matchup is rated tough. Betting line: implied team total 24.8, spread -7.0.
How to read these numbers
- Confidence in the call
- How clear-cut this start/sit call is — how decisively the player beats the alternative he competes with (for a starter, the best player on your bench; for a bench player, the last one in your lineup), on both projected points and the overlap of their likely ranges. A clear play reads high; a genuine toss-up reads lower. It rates the decision, not the player’s own volatility, and is not a measured accuracy rate.
- Floor
- The 20th percentile of the same simulated distribution.
- Ceiling
- The 90th percentile of the same simulated distribution.
- Opportunity score
- Expected points from projected volume alone, before any efficiency of this player’s own: each projected touch and target valued at the positional average for the scoring format.
- Matchup grade
- The opponent’s points allowed to this position per game, weighted toward recent games, then graded on a curve across the 32 defenses.
- Implied team total
- The points the betting market expects this team to score, derived from the game total and the spread. Market-derived, not modelled by Nuvela.
- Trend
- The direction of his scoring across the trailing window, classified as heating, steady or cooling.
- Touch share trend
- The same classification, measured on his share of team touches rather than on his points.
- Consistency
- The share of his games that landed within a set band of his own per-game average.
- Boom rate
- The share of his games that finished inside the top 12 scorers at his position for that week.
- Bust rate
- The share of his games that came in under half of what he was projected for that week.
- Vacated touches
- Carries and targets belonging to team-mates who are ruled out, on IR, or listed as non-participants for this week, taken at their recent per-game rate.
- Defense funnel
- Whether the opponent’s rush defense and pass defense are far enough apart to push offenses one way. A gap inside the band reads Neutral.
- Game script projection
- The expected state of the game for his team — favoured, level or trailing — taken from the closing spread.
More start/sit comparisons from this week's PPR projections. Open a pair for the call and the reasoning.