Should I start Colston Loveland or Aaron Jones Sr. in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Colston Loveland, and the board ranks him 56th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 20; 2QB: ADP 42.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Jones Sr., and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Colston Loveland's market-based projection is 12.9 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 45th highest figure of the 219 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Aaron Jones Sr. at 8.5 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 8 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

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

This season through Week 8

Through Week 8, Colston Loveland has been on the field for 86 percent of CHI snaps, drawn 20 percent of the targets and had 9 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 15 of the offence's 70 third down targets, had 2 of its 40 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 38 two minute targets.

His 51 targets have averaged 6.6 air yards.

In Week 6 against ATL he caught 6 of 7 targets for 65 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against NE he caught 7 of 12 targets for 69 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against SEA he caught 7 of 9 targets for 65 yards and did not score.

Through Week 8, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 32 percent of MIN snaps, taken 30 percent of the carries, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 20 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 17 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 3 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

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

In Week 8 against DET he carried 5 times for 22 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 18 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Colston Loveland played 16 games and scored 165.1 PPR points, 10.3 a game, finishing TE12.

He caught 58 of 82 targets for 713 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 14 red zone targets.

That came to 5.1 targets a game, a 71 percent catch rate and 12.3 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 63 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

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.

Colston Loveland was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Colston Loveland scored 10.3 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 0.4 a game between them.

Colston Loveland finished TE12 and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41, which are two different ladders.

Colston Loveland is a tight end and Aaron Jones Sr. a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

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

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.