Aaron Jones Sr. or Josh Jacobs: who should I start in Week 5?
Both players' season market price, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers, with the draft market's own figures wherever it still has them.
Updated Oct 7, 2026 at 6:21 PM ET
Neither is in the consensus draft sample any more, and the market has not posted a whole price on Josh Jacobs, 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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RB11 · MIN · bye 6
2026 vs carries line 4-0
- Market price
- 16.0 pts a game
- Draft pick
- no consensus
RB55 · GB · bye 11
2025 vs rush yds line 8-7
- Overall rank
- 203
- Draft pick
- no consensus
- Tier
- 8
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The gap
- Pick differencenot comparable without a consensus on both
- Board size218 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 market 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 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.
Drafters have formed no consensus on Josh Jacobs: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 203rd overall on the rest of his evidence.
What the player markets price
The player markets price Aaron Jones Sr. at 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 13 market sources. That is the 33rd highest figure of the 182 players the market prices.
No season market is posted for Josh Jacobs, so the only market valuing him on this page is the draft room.
This season through Week 4
Through Week 4, Aaron Jones Sr. has been on the field for 69 percent of MIN snaps, taken 65 percent of the carries, drawn 15 percent of the targets and had 38 percent of the red zone chances.
He has taken 4 of the offence's 42 third down targets, had 1 of its 2 chances inside the five and seen 1 of its 9 two minute targets.
His 15 targets have come 0.1 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.
In Week 2 against CHI he carried 23 times for 105 yards and did not score.
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.
The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Josh Jacobs this season.
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 Josh Jacobs played 15 games and scored 237.1 PPR points, 15.8 a game, finishing RB13.
He carried 234 times for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns, and caught 36 of 44 targets for 282 more yards.
That came to 15.6 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 2.4 catches a game.
He was on the field for 59 percent of the snaps in the games he played.
Josh Jacobs was available for 3 games more.
Head to head
In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Aaron Jones Sr. 9.9, 5.9 a game between them.
Aaron Jones Sr. finished RB41 that year and Josh Jacobs RB13.
Josh Jacobs had 102 more carries than Aaron Jones Sr., 234 to 132.
Josh Jacobs had 8 more catches than Aaron Jones Sr., 36 to 28.
Byes and availability
Aaron Jones Sr. is off in Week 6 and Josh Jacobs in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.
Josh Jacobs is listed as na on the injury report.
What would change the answer
Josh Jacobs has no posted market, so one half of the evidence on this page exists for only one of them.
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