Should I start Jauan Jennings or Ashton Jeanty in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jauan Jennings, and the board ranks him 57th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 58th overall on the rest of his evidence.

By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 25.

The market-based projections

Jauan Jennings's market-based projection is 3.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 63rd highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ashton Jeanty is 4.4 PPR points a game off 1 market across 6 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.

Ashton Jeanty's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Jauan Jennings has been on the field for 70 percent of MIN snaps, drawn 6 percent of the targets and had 3 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 50 third down targets, had 0 of its 3 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 11 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have averaged 13.9 air yards.

In Week 4 against MIA he caught 1 of 1 target for 8 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against NO he caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

In Week 7 against IND he caught 2 of 3 targets for 34 yards and did not score.

Through Week 7, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 70 percent of LV snaps, taken 64 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 44 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 71 third down targets, had 9 of its 15 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 44 targets have averaged 2.2 air yards.

In Week 5 against NE he carried 10 times for 27 yards, caught 3 of 6 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against BUF he carried 10 times for 22 yards, caught 4 of 6 targets for 36 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 7 against LAR he carried 8 times for 15 yards, caught 8 of 8 targets for 61 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Jauan Jennings played 15 games and scored 173.3 PPR points, 11.6 a game, finishing WR33.

He caught 55 of 90 targets for 643 yards and 9 touchdowns, with 19 red zone targets.

That came to 6.0 targets a game, a 61 percent catch rate and 11.7 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 82 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty played 17 games and scored 245.1 PPR points, 14.4 a game, finishing RB11.

He carried 266 times for 975 yards and 5 touchdowns, and caught 55 of 73 targets for 346 more yards.

That came to 15.6 carries a game at 3.7 yards a carry and 3.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ashton Jeanty was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Ashton Jeanty scored 14.4 PPR points a game and Jauan Jennings 11.6, 2.9 a game between them.

Jauan Jennings finished WR33 and Ashton Jeanty RB11, which are two different ladders.

Jauan Jennings is a wide receiver and Ashton Jeanty a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Jauan Jennings is off in Week 6 and Ashton Jeanty in Week 13, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ashton Jeanty has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.