Ashton Jeanty or Jaxon Smith-Njigba: who should I start?

What the sportsbooks price

The player markets price Ashton Jeanty at 17.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 17 books. That is the 15th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

The player markets price Jaxon Smith-Njigba at 17.6 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 17 books. That is the 16th highest figure of the 183 players the books price.

Where the draft room has them

Ashton Jeanty goes at ADP 3, an average pick of 20.3, and the board has him RB6 in tier 2.

His earliest recorded pick is 7 and his latest 26, a standard deviation of 5.0 picks.

He appears in 923 recorded drafts across the formats the consensus sample covers.

Over 14 days his average pick has not moved a full pick either way.

By format he goes standard: ADP 8; 2QB: ADP 38.

Drafters have formed no consensus on Jaxon Smith-Njigba: he carries no ADP, and the board ranks him 7th overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 10.

This season through Week 1

Through Week 1, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 74 percent of LV snaps, taken 68 percent of the carries, drawn 21 percent of the targets and had 58 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 3 of the offence's 8 third down targets and seen 2 of its 4 two minute targets.

His 6 targets have averaged 3.0 air yards.

In Week 1 against MIA he carried 23 times for 102 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 45 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 1, Jaxon Smith-Njigba has been on the field for 90 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 46 percent of the targets and had 50 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 4 of the offence's 7 third down targets and seen 1 of its 3 two minute targets.

His 11 targets have averaged 6.9 air yards.

In Week 1 against NE he caught 8 of 11 targets for 122 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

In 2025 Jaxon Smith-Njigba played 17 games and scored 359.9 PPR points, 21.2 a game, finishing WR2.

He caught 119 of 163 targets for 1793 yards and 10 touchdowns, with 17 red zone targets.

That came to 9.6 targets a game, a 73 percent catch rate and 15.1 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 78 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Jaxon Smith-Njigba scored 21.2 PPR points a game and Ashton Jeanty 14.4, 6.8 a game between them.

Ashton Jeanty finished RB11 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba WR2, which are two different ladders.

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

Byes and availability

Ashton Jeanty is off in Week 13 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba in Week 11, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

0.2 points a game is the entire case. The books restate it every week, and a line that moves moves the order with it.

The draft market is the half that is missing: when the consensus sample holds these two again it can order them differently from the price, and this page will follow the sample rather than the books when it does.