Should I start Josh Jacobs or Ashton Jeanty in Week 9?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Josh Jacobs, and the board ranks him 20th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Ashton Jeanty, and the board ranks him 81st overall on the rest of his evidence.

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

The market-based projections

Josh Jacobs's market-based projection is 14.8 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 15th highest figure of the 211 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Ashton Jeanty is 3.6 PPR points a game off 1 market across 5 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 8

Through Week 8, Josh Jacobs has been on the field for 62 percent of GB snaps, taken 71 percent of the carries, drawn 16 percent of the targets and had 67 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 7 of the offence's 24 third down targets, had 5 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 13 targets have averaged 2.8 air yards.

In Week 7 against DET he carried 11 times for 36 yards, caught 5 of 7 targets for 55 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 8 against CAR he carried 21 times for 39 yards, caught 6 of 6 targets for 13 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

Through Week 8, Ashton Jeanty has been on the field for 66 percent of LV snaps, taken 55 percent of the carries, drawn 17 percent of the targets and had 36 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 9 of the offence's 77 third down targets, had 9 of its 25 chances inside the five and seen 9 of its 43 two minute targets.

His 48 targets have averaged 2.1 air yards.

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.

In Week 8 against NYJ he carried 2 times for 9 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 64 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

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.

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.

Head to head

In 2025 Josh Jacobs scored 15.8 PPR points a game and Ashton Jeanty 14.4, 1.4 a game between them.

Josh Jacobs finished RB13 that year and Ashton Jeanty RB11.

Ashton Jeanty had 32 more carries than Josh Jacobs, 266 to 234.

Ashton Jeanty had 19 more catches than Josh Jacobs, 55 to 36.

This season Ashton Jeanty holds the bigger snap share, 66 percent against 62 percent.

This season Josh Jacobs holds the bigger share of the carries, 71 percent against 55 percent.

Byes and availability

Josh Jacobs is off in Week 11 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.