Should I drop Aaron Jones Sr. for Jordan Love?

Not on these numbers alone. Aaron Jones Sr. projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 11 games) and Jordan Love 161 (16.1 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

Should I start Aaron Jones Sr. or Jordan Love in Week 7?

Updated Oct 20, 11:16 PM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Jordan Love: 99 percent of the snaps and 0 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Aaron Jones Sr.'s 80 percent of the snaps and 74 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 Jordan Love for Aaron Jones Sr.?

Not on these numbers alone. Jordan Love projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games) and Aaron Jones Sr. 168 (15.3 a game over 11 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.

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

Aaron Jones Sr.

RB22 · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 5-0

Overall rank: 67

Jordan Love

QB8 · GB · bye 11

2026 vs pass yds line 4-2

Market-based projection: 17.6 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 67th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 70th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

The market-based projections

The market has Aaron Jones Sr. at 4.7 PPR points a game off 1 market across 8 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.

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 17.6 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 196 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 so far

Through Week 5, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 73 percent of MIN snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 39 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 51 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 13 two minute targets.

His 18 targets have come 0.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 3 against TB he carried 17 times for 58 yards, caught 5 of 6 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 4 against MIA he carried 20 times for 94 yards, caught 4 of 8 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he carried 25 times for 113 yards, caught 3 of 3 targets for 4 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 6, Jordan Love has been on the field for 99 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 240 times and thrown 8.8 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 46 of 240 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 4 against TB he completed 22 of 30 passes for 197 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception and ran 1 time for 4 yards.

In Week 5 against CHI he completed 25 of 31 passes for 367 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 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 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Jordan Love was available for 3 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 6.2 a game between them.

Aaron Jones Sr. finished RB41 and Jordan Love QB15, which are two different ladders.

Aaron Jones Sr. is a running back and Jordan Love 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 Jordan Love in Week 11, 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 Jordan Love for Aaron Jones Sr.?
Not on these numbers alone. Jordan Love projects 161 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (16.1 a game over 10 games) and Aaron Jones Sr. 168 (15.3 a game over 11 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.
Should I drop Aaron Jones Sr. for Jordan Love?
Not on these numbers alone. Aaron Jones Sr. projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 11 games) and Jordan Love 161 (16.1 a game over 10 games), too close to separate, so the roster spot decides it.