Aaron Jones Sr. or J.K. Dobbins: who should I start?
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 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the books have not posted a whole price on J.K. Dobbins, 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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RB12 · MIN · bye 6
2025 vs rush yds line 4-8
- Books price
- 15.1 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB27 · DEN · bye 10
2025 vs rush yds line 8-2
- Overall rank
- 72
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size242 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 Aaron Jones Sr.: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 18th overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 137.
Drafters have formed no consensus on J.K. Dobbins: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 72nd overall on the rest of his evidence.
In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 94.
What the sportsbooks price
The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 15.1 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 16 books. That is the 36th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.
The books have J.K. Dobbins at 10.1 PPR points a game off 3 markets across 16 books. That is 90 percent of what a running back's price needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.
J.K. Dobbins's price is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.
This season through Week 1
Through Week 1, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 46 percent of MIN snaps, taken 39 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 31 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 10 third down targets and had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five.
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.
Through Week 1, J.K. Dobbins has been on the field for 43 percent of DEN snaps, taken 57 percent of the carries, drawn 0 percent of the targets and had 0 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 0 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 0 of its 2 two minute targets.
In Week 1 against KC he carried 8 times for 36 yards and did not score.
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 J.K. Dobbins played 10 games and scored 115.9 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing RB43.
He carried 153 times for 772 yards and 4 touchdowns, and caught 11 of 14 targets for 37 more yards.
That came to 15.3 carries a game at 5.0 yards a carry and 1.1 catches a game.
He was on the field for 51 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Aaron Jones Sr. was available for 2 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 J.K. Dobbins scored 11.6 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 1.7 a game between them.
Aaron Jones Sr. finished RB41 that year and J.K. Dobbins RB43.
J.K. Dobbins had 21 more carries than Aaron Jones Sr., 153 to 132.
Aaron Jones Sr. had 17 more catches than J.K. Dobbins, 28 to 11.
This season Aaron Jones Sr. holds the bigger snap share, 46 percent against 43 percent.
This season J.K. Dobbins holds the bigger share of the carries, 57 percent against 39 percent.
Byes and availability
Aaron Jones Sr. is off in Week 6 and J.K. Dobbins in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.
What would change the answer
J.K. Dobbins is only part priced, so the books' half of this page is whole for only one of them.
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