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Should I start Aaron Jones Sr. or Bo Nix in Week 8?

Updated Oct 28, 7:21 AM ET.

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  • : Aaron Jones Sr.: Listed Questionable (Undisclosed) (Sleeper injury feed)

Start Bo Nix: 100 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Aaron Jones Sr.'s 25 percent of the snaps and 30 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Aaron Jones Sr. for Bo Nix?

Not on these numbers alone. Aaron Jones Sr. projects 141 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (14.1 a game over 10 games) and Bo Nix 146 (16.2 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Aaron Jones Sr. is listed questionable.

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Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

Aaron Jones Sr.

RB34 · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 5-1

Market-based projection
10.9 pts a game Wk 7 price
Overall rank
98

Bo Nix

QB16 · DEN · bye 10

2026 vs pass yds line 2-5

Market-based projection
16.0 pts a game

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The gap

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Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Jones Sr., and the board ranks him 98th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 100th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market has Aaron Jones Sr. at 3.5 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 21st highest figure of the 201 players with a market-based projection.

Aaron Jones Sr.'s projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 25 percent of MIN snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets, had 0 of its 1 chance inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 1 target have averaged 0.0 air yards.

In Week 7 against IND he carried 8 times for 26 yards, caught 1 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 234 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 234 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. played 12 games and scored 118.7 PPR points, 9.9 a game, finishing RB41.

He carried 132 times for 548 yards and 2 touchdowns, and caught 28 of 41 targets for 199 more yards.

That came to 11.0 carries a game at 4.2 yards a carry and 2.3 catches a game.

He was on the field for 55 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Bo Nix was available for 5 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 8.7 a game between them.

Aaron Jones Sr. finished RB41 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Aaron Jones Sr. is a running back and Bo Nix a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Aaron Jones Sr. is off in Week 6 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Aaron Jones Sr. is listed as questionable on the injury report.

What would change the answer

Aaron Jones Sr. has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Aaron Jones Sr. for Bo Nix?

    Not on these numbers alone. Aaron Jones Sr. projects 141 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (14.1 a game over 10 games) and Bo Nix 146 (16.2 a game over 9 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Aaron Jones Sr. is listed questionable.

  • Should I drop Bo Nix for Aaron Jones Sr.?

    Not on these numbers alone. Bo Nix projects 146 market-implied PPR points from Week 8 through Week 17 (16.2 a game over 9 games) and Aaron Jones Sr. 141 (14.1 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it. Aaron Jones Sr. is listed questionable.

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