Jaylen Waddle or Aaron Jones Sr.: who should I start in Week 3?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Jaylen Waddle at 12.5 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 16 books. That is the 66th highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 12.2 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 71st highest figure of the 174 players the books price.

Where the draft room stands

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaylen Waddle: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 45th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 15; 2QB: ADP 72.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Jones Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 46th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 136.

This season through Week 2

Through Week 2, Jaylen Waddle has been on the field for 67 percent of DEN snaps, drawn 23 percent of the targets and had 7 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 15 third down targets, had 0 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 12.8 air yards.

In Week 1 against KC he caught 1 of 3 targets for 2 yards and did not score.

In Week 2 against JAX he caught 8 of 10 targets for 138 yards and did not score.

Through Week 2, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 62 percent of MIN snaps, taken 59 percent of the carries, drawn 2 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 1 target have averaged 4.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against GB he carried 12 times for 40 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 2 against CHI he carried 23 times for 105 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle played 16 games and scored 194.1 PPR points, 12.1 a game, finishing WR24.

He caught 64 of 100 targets for 910 yards and 6 touchdowns, with 11 red zone targets.

That came to 6.3 targets a game, a 64 percent catch rate and 14.2 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 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.

Jaylen Waddle was available for 4 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaylen Waddle scored 12.1 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 2.2 a game between them.

Jaylen Waddle finished WR24 and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41, which are two different ladders.

Jaylen Waddle is a wide receiver 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

Jaylen Waddle 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

0.3 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.