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Saquon Barkley
LMD RB Tier 5 for Week 9 · 9.6 projected Standard points · RB28 rest of season
Questionable
Regular season
Week 9 and rest of season fantasy rankings
We project 9.6 points this week, RB Tier 5. The middle 80% of simulated scores runs 2.6 - 19.1 points. Top 3: 6% · Top 12: 23% · Top 24: 44% of simulated weeks. Listed questionable.
Week 9
RB Tier 5
9.0 - 10.2 projected points
Rest of season
RB28
49th by projected points
Projected
9.6
week 9, Standard
Top 12
23%
Top 3: 6% · Top 24: 44% at RB
Movement
—
Unchanged: RB25 in Week 8
Should you start Saquon Barkley in Week 9?
Borderline
It is close. LMD ranks Saquon Barkley RB25 for Week 9, just outside the RB24 starter line. He finishes inside RB24 in 44% of simulated weeks.
The starter line is a standard 12-team lineup's, and is the line LMD's weekly accuracy review grades this board against.
- Draft / market prior
- Slight positive+0.40 pts
- Recent usage & efficiency
- Negative-0.71 pts
- AvailabilityUnresolved injury
- No mean changeWider range0.00 pts
- Outside projection
- Slight positive+0.46 pts
- Betting markets
- Slight positive+0.48 pts
Why isn’t matchup a separate factor?
How to read
- Full model minus the model without each factor.
- Effects are not additive or changes in rank.
- Recent data includes its effect on blending weights.
- A range note means a factor moved the spread and not the expected points.
Standard scoring · Updated November 5, 2026
LMD Rankings are produced by Let's Mock Draft's own statistical and market model. They are not analyst rankings: consensus boards are not an input, and nothing is edited by hand.
Updates
Recent updates
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Latest on DeVonta Smith, Saquon Barkley injury. Eagles coach on QB change
Yahoo Sports ·
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Tom Rock: Giants missing Saquon Barkley no longer a storyline; funny how winning changes things
newsday.com ·
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Giants not looking past Saquon Barkley and struggling Eagles
nypost.com ·
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Eagles Injury Report: Saquon Barkley upgraded to limited
Yahoo Sports ·
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Saquon Barkley returns to limited work Thursday
NBC Sports ·
Headlines from other publishers, discovered automatically and matched to Saquon Barkley by name -- we did not write these and we do not host them, and each one opens at the publisher who did.
Season performance
Performance vs. projection
Over 6 completed games Saquon Barkley has averaged -3.7 points a game against what we projected before kickoff.
| Week | Opp | Proj | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | vs WAS | 12.4 | 8.0 | -4.4 |
| Wk 2 | @ TEN | 11.9 | 2.0 | -9.9 |
| Wk 3 | @ CHI | 11.3 | 8.0 | -3.3 |
| Wk 4 | vs LAR | 10.7 | 1.0 | -9.7 |
| Wk 5 | @ JAX | 7.5 | Pending | — |
| Wk 6 | vs CAR | 8.0 | Pending | — |
| Wk 7 | vs DAL | 10.5 | 13.1 | +2.6 |
| Wk 8 | @ WAS | 9.2 | 11.4 | +2.2 |
| Wk 9 | vs NYG | 9.6 | — | — |
Each week's projection is the last one Let's Mock Draft published before that game kicked off, recorded at the time and never recalculated afterwards. The shaded band is the middle 80% of that week's simulated outcomes. Actual points are scored from official statistics under the scoring rule selected above.
Draft Return
How he compares with his draft price
The draft market had him at RB8. For the rest of the season LMD has him 20 spots lower, at RB28.
Preseason market: RB8 · ADP 12.1
Season to date
Ranking what he has actually scored needs every player's season, and that board is not published yet.
Rest of season
RB28 −20
LMD has him 20 spots lower than his RB8 draft price.
Week 9
RB25 −17
LMD has him 17 spots lower than his RB8 draft price.
Standard scoring · benchmark September 9, 2026
Season to date is what he has actually scored, ranked among his position. Rest of season and this week are LMD's current expectations rather than results. All three are compared with where the draft market had him before the season started.
RB8 is where Fantasy Football Calculator had him on September 9, 2026, the last board taken before the season's first kickoff. Later boards absorb what has happened since, so they are a current market rather than a draft price.
Regular season
Why LMD has him here
We project 81.8 points this season, RB28. Top 3: 0% · Top 12: 5% · Top 24: 34% of simulated seasons. That is 9.7 a game over 8.959 remaining games. Listed questionable. Down 1 since the Nov. 4 board.
Per game
9.7 / game
Over 8.959 remaining game(s)
Finishing odds
Top 3: 0% · Top 12: 5% · Top 24: 34%
Share of simulated seasons finishing inside that place at RB
Market input
broad
Broad market coverage across several venues and markets.
LMD Rankings, rankings-v1.5.2. Inputs: Ball Don't Lie (fantasy market, player status, projections); PropLine (player props). · 2026 Rest of season board updated November 5, 2026
Dynasty
Long-term value
LMD's dynasty model has Saquon Barkley #43 in 1QB and #54 in Superflex, RB16 at his position. Age 29.
1QB
#43
RB16 · tier 13 · of 300
Superflex
#54
RB16 · tier 11 · of 307
- Last season 213.8 pts 13.4 per game, half-PPR scoring, in the games he played.
- Availability 92% Share of his team's games he played over the seasons the model reads.
- History 3 seasons Seasons of production the model read; more history is weighed more confidently.
- Touches 22.0 / game Carries plus receptions per game; 13% of his team's targets.
LMD dynasty model 1.2.0: a 3-season projection from observed NFL statistics, priced above a lineup's replacement level. Our own ranking, not an ADP, a consensus or a market price. Updated October 2026.
Draft season Draft position and availability
ADP, draft range, availability at a pick and who goes around him, measured over 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts.
Simulated draft position
Where he goes
Simulation average
2.01
pick 13.2 overall, averaged over every simulated draft
Median pick
2.01
half of simulations take him by pick 13
Draft range
1.10 - 2.05
the middle 80% of simulations (P10-P90)
Simulations
10,000
drafted in every one
Filters
League format
Availability
Odds he reaches your pick
Available at 2.01 in 63% of simulations
Pick 13 overall in a 12-team draft · 10,000 simulations
From draft slot 12, the same seat picks again at 3.12, where he is available in 0% of simulations.
Slot 12's remaining turns: 2.01 63% · 3.12 0%
The middle half of simulations take him between 1.11 and 2.03.
| Pick | Available |
|---|---|
| 1.11 | 83% |
| 1.12 | 74% |
| 2.01 | 63% |
| 2.02 | 46% |
| 2.03 | 31% |
| 2.04 | 18% |
| 2.05 | 11% |
| 2.06 | 6% |
| 2.07 | 4% |
| 2.08 | 2% |
| 2.09 | <1% |
| 2.10 | <1% |
| 2.11 | <1% |
| 2.12 | <1% |
| 3.01 | <1% |
Distribution
Draft position distribution
| Pick | Share of simulations | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1.09 | 5% | 532 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.10 | 7% | 727 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.11 | 9% | 898 of 10000 simulations |
| 1.12 | 11% | 1120 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.01 | 17% | 1685 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.02 | 15% | 1544 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.03 | 13% | 1256 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.04 | 7% | 731 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.05 | 4% | 441 of 10000 simulations |
| 2.06 | 3% | 264 of 10000 simulations |
Draft context
Who goes around him
Measured over the 10000 simulations in which Saquon Barkley was drafted.
Usually taken just before
- De'Von Achane RB · MIA 13%
- Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · DET 13%
- CeeDee Lamb WR · DAL 12%
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR · SEA 11%
Usually taken just after
- CeeDee Lamb WR · DAL 12%
- Justin Jefferson WR · MIN 12%
- Chase Brown RB · CIN 9%
- Amon-Ra St. Brown WR · DET 9%
Methodology
How this is measured
Every figure on this page comes from a Monte Carlo batch of 10,000 simulated 12-team Standard 1QB drafts, each one played out pick by pick by the same simulated managers that fill an empty seat in a live room.
Saquon Barkley was selected in 10000 of those 10000 drafts. Every probability here rests on that count.
Each player's expected draft position starts from Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP as of November 5, 2026; the simulated managers move him from there. Players it does not price keep a price inferred from our own rankings.
A reach or a fall on this page is measured against Fantasy Football Calculator's aggregate ADP where it prices a player, and against a price inferred from our own rankings where it does not.
- Simulation model
- simulation-v1.2
- Generated
- November 5, 2026
- Player dataset
- nflverse-2026@c60914d598b9e57d
- Baseline
- mixed
- Market prior
- ADP data from Fantasy Football Calculator (2026-11-05)
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