Should I start Tanner McKee or Aaron Jones Sr. in Week 7?

Updated Oct 22, 11:36 AM ET. Week 8 answers post Tuesday.

Start Tanner McKee: 100 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 Tanner McKee for Aaron Jones Sr.?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Aaron Jones Sr. projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 11 games), Tanner McKee 138 (13.8 a game over 10 games).

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

Tanner McKee

QB24 · PHI · bye unlisted

Market-based projection: 14.4 pts a game

Aaron Jones Sr.

RB39 · MIN · bye 6

2026 vs carries line 5-0

Overall rank: 123

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The gap

Board size317 draftable players

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 Tanner McKee, and the board ranks him 122nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Aaron Jones Sr., and the board ranks him 123rd overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Tanner McKee's market-based projection is 14.4 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 55th highest figure of the 216 players with a market-based projection.

The market has Aaron Jones Sr. at 3.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 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.

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 6, Tanner McKee has been on the field for 100 percent of PHI snaps, dropped back 48 times and thrown 8.0 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 10 of 48 dropbacks.

In Week 6 against CAR he completed 26 of 45 passes for 215 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 0 yards.

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.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Tanner McKee played 4 games and scored 14.8 PPR points, 3.7 a game, finishing QB55.

He threw for 274 yards on 43 attempts with 1 touchdown and 1 interception, and ran for 8 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 10.8 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 3 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.

Aaron Jones Sr. was available for 8 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Aaron Jones Sr. scored 9.9 PPR points a game and Tanner McKee 3.7, 6.2 a game between them.

Tanner McKee finished QB55 and Aaron Jones Sr. RB41, which are two different ladders.

Tanner McKee is a quarterback 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

Aaron Jones Sr. is off in Week 6. No bye is listed for Tanner McKee.

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 Tanner McKee for Aaron Jones Sr.?
Yes, on the rest of the season. Aaron Jones Sr. projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 11 games), Tanner McKee 138 (13.8 a game over 10 games).
Should I drop Aaron Jones Sr. for Tanner McKee?
No. Keep Aaron Jones Sr.: he projects 168 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (15.3 a game over 11 games), Tanner McKee 138 (13.8 a game over 10 games).

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