RJ Harvey Fantasy Football Start or Sit Advice for Week 6

RJ Harvey Start or Sit Advice for Week 6

So far, the AFC West has been the most competitive division in football, as the only division with three teams in the current playoff picture. However, instead of the Denver Broncos leading the division ahead of the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs like they did last season, the Broncos are in line for the sixth seed, ahead of the Las Vegas Raiders and behind the Chiefs. Denver hasn’t disappointed quite as much as the 0-5 Chargers have, but they haven’t looked like a Super Bowl contender, either.

One of Denver’s most disappointing players this season has been running back RJ Harvey. Harvey had a strong rookie campaign in 2025, turning 146 carries into 540 yards and seven scores and adding an additional 47 catches, 356 yards, and five touchdowns through the air, but so far in 2026, he’s earned just 15 carries for 56 yards, though he’s still been a factor in the passing game (20 catches from 22 targets for 132 yards). He could still gain some opportunity eventually, as J.K. Dobbins has been inefficient, isn’t a factor in the air, and has dealt with rotten injury luck throughout his NFL career.

Harvey has only appeared in a majority of snaps once this season, and 17 of his 35 touches came in the Week 4 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. He had 10.7 FPTS in Week 3, giving him fringe viability, but Week 4 was the only week in which he was actually an asset. He managed just 0.7 FPTS in Week 5, as Dobbins played a majority of snaps in that game. Harvey just has three targets all season inside the red zone, so he hasn’t exactly had many opportunities to score his first touchdown of the campaign.

Harvey’s advanced numbers are ugly. Although he hasn’t taken enough carries to qualify for the NFL’s Next Gen Stats leaderboard, he has been the 10th-worst among 60 qualified running backs by Pro Football Focus’ standards, and his utter ineptitude in pass protection won’t help his playing time. To be fair, Dobbins has been one of the few backs worse than him, and his elusiveness score is somewhat higher than Dobbins’, but the bar is low. He hasn’t forced a missed tackle yet this season, while Dobbins has forced eight, and both running backs have fumbled once.

Harvey wouldn’t be worth starting against any opponent, but the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks are a difficult matchup. This season, the Seahawks have allowed the 14th-fewest FPTS per game to opposing running backs, but many of their problems are attributable to the fact that they’ve allowed two receiving touchdowns to the position, tied for the third-most in the league. On a per-play basis, Seattle has been solid, limiting opponents to the seventh-fewest yards per attempt, and it didn’t lose any of its top run-defenders from its Super Bowl-winning 2025/26 side.

Start or Sit: Sit RJ Harvey.