Matthew Golden or Aaron Jones Sr.: who should I start in Week 3?
Both players' season price from the sportsbooks, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Sep 26, 2026 at 8:21 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on Matthew Golden, so there is no current market order to give between these two. What follows is what each of them has already done.
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WR22 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rec yds line 5-9
- Books price
- 12.3 pts a game Wk 3 price
- Overall rank
- 49
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 9
RB22 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 4-8
- Books price
- 12.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size222 draftable players
Consensus average draft position has stopped updating on these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out rather than printed stale. The verdict line above restates the sportsbooks' price and nothing else.
Where the draft room stands
Drafters have formed no consensus on Matthew Golden: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 49th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 116.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Aaron Jones Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 50th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 139.
What the sportsbooks price
No sportsbook has posted a season market for Matthew Golden, so the only market pricing him on this page is the draft room.
The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 12.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 70th highest figure of the 170 players the books price.
This season through Week 2
Through Week 2, Matthew Golden has been on the field for 84 percent of GB snaps, drawn 26 percent of the targets and had 17 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 6 of the offence's 19 third down targets, had 0 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 3 of its 12 two minute targets.
His 18 targets have averaged 12.1 air yards.
In Week 1 against MIN he caught 6 of 12 targets for 95 yards and did not score.
In Week 2 against NYJ he caught 4 of 6 targets for 58 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 Matthew Golden played 14 games and scored 70.0 PPR points, 5.0 a game, finishing WR89.
He caught 29 of 44 targets for 361 yards and 0 touchdowns, with 2 red zone targets.
That came to 3.1 targets a game, a 66 percent catch rate and 12.4 yards a catch.
He was on the field for 50 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.
Matthew Golden was available for 2 games more.
Side by side
In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Matthew Golden 5.0, 4.9 a game between them.
Matthew Golden finished WR89 and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41, which are two different ladders.
Matthew Golden 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
Matthew Golden is off in Week 11 and Aaron Jones Sr. in Week 6, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
Matthew Golden has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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