Houston Rockets Depth Chart
The Houston Rockets starting five and bench at every position
Updated Oct 10, 2026
The Houston Rockets starting five: Fred VanVleet (PG), Amen Thompson (SG), Kevin Durant (SF), Jabari Smith Jr. (PF), and Alperen Sengun (C). First off the bench: Marcus Smart, Reed Sheppard, Tari Eason, and Steven Adams.
Starting five
- PGFred VanVleet
- SGAmen Thompson
- SFKevin Durant
- PFJabari Smith Jr.
- CAlperen Sengun
Bench by position
PG
- 2Marcus Smart
- 3Bruce Thornton
- 4Reed Sheppard
- 5Bogdan Bogdanovic
- 6Quadir Copeland
- 7Sean Pedulla
SG
- 2Reed Sheppard
- 3Marcus Smart
- 4Bogdan Bogdanovic
- 5Tari Eason
- 6Bruce Thornton
- 7Quadir Copeland
- 8Sean Pedulla
SF
- 2Tari Eason
- 3Bogdan Bogdanovic
- 4Jae'Sean Tate
- 5Isaiah Crawford
PF
- 2Tari Eason
- 3Jae'Sean Tate
- 4Isaiah Crawford
C
- 2Steven Adams
- 3Clint Capela
- 4Oscar Tshiebwe
A bench player who plays more than one position is listed at each. Injury status from ESPN.
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See who starts and who comes off the bench for every NBA team, position by position, so you know whose minutes go up when a starter gets hurt.
Each team's page puts its starting five on a half court - point guard up top, the wings either side, the bigs near the basket - and lists the bench beside it by position. A bench player's number is his place on the chart: 2 is the first backup at that position.
Many bench players cover two positions - a combo guard backs up both PG and SG. Such a player is listed under each position he plays, so every position shows who really comes in behind its starter. The five starters are listed once, at their starting position.
OUT and DTD badges show ESPN's injury status, refreshed through the day. With a league connected, each player is tagged with the fantasy team that has him, so a backup who is still a free agent stands out.
They start from ESPN's depth charts, loaded every day, and are corrected by hand when a team's real rotation differs - after a trade, an injury or a coach's change.
Type his name in the search on the Depth Charts page. It finds starters and bench players alike and shows only the teams he could be on.
It narrows the page to the teams with a game today, which is when a depth chart matters most for setting a lineup or picking up a streamer.