Should I start Ashton Jeanty or Jordan Love in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 79th overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Jordan Love, and the board ranks him 82nd overall on the rest of his evidence.

In 2QB drafts he goes at ADP 21.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ashton Jeanty is 4.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 7 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.

Jordan Love's market-based projection is 16.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 14 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 200 players with a market-based 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, 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.

Through Week 7, Jordan Love has been on the field for 100 percent of GB snaps, dropped back 286 times and thrown 9.1 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 52 of 286 dropbacks and scrambled 1 time.

In Week 5 against CHI he completed 25 of 31 passes for 367 yards, threw 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 1 time for 6 yards.

In Week 6 against DAL he completed 23 of 41 passes for 276 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 1 interception and ran 2 times for 14 yards.

In Week 7 against DET he completed 27 of 45 passes for 274 yards and threw 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.

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 Jordan Love played 15 games and scored 241.1 PPR points, 16.1 a game, finishing QB15.

He threw for 3381 yards on 439 attempts with 23 touchdowns and 6 interceptions, and ran for 199 yards and 0 touchdowns.

That came to 29.3 attempts a game at 7.7 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 94 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Ashton Jeanty was available for 2 games more.

Side by side

In 2025 Jordan Love scored 16.1 PPR points a game and Ashton Jeanty 14.4, 1.7 a game between them.

Ashton Jeanty finished RB11 and Jordan Love QB15, which are two different ladders.

Ashton Jeanty is a running back and Jordan Love a quarterback, 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 Jordan Love in Week 11, 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.