Should I start Ollie Gordon II or Bo Nix in Week 8?

Where the draft room stands

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

Live drafts hold no current pick on Bo Nix, and the board ranks him 21st overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Ollie Gordon II is 14.4 PPR points a game off 2 markets across 7 market sources. That is 70 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Bo Nix's market-based projection is 16.0 PPR points a game, built from 5 markets across 10 market sources. That is the 11th highest figure of the 198 players with a market-based projection.

Ollie Gordon II's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 7

Through Week 7, Ollie Gordon II has been on the field for 83 percent of MIA snaps, taken 64 percent of the carries, drawn 14 percent of the targets and had 45 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 6 third down targets, had 5 of its 6 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 1 two minute target.

His 3 targets have come 3.3 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 7 against NYJ he carried 25 times for 103 yards, caught 1 of 3 targets for 0 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Through Week 7, Bo Nix has been on the field for 100 percent of DEN snaps, dropped back 234 times and thrown 5.7 air yards an attempt.

He has been sacked or hit on 24 of 234 dropbacks and scrambled 7 times.

In Week 5 against LAC he completed 16 of 27 passes for 123 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 4 times for 10 yards.

In Week 6 against SEA he completed 17 of 27 passes for 107 yards, threw 0 touchdowns and 0 interceptions and ran 3 times for 3 yards.

In Week 7 against ARI he completed 15 of 29 passes for 222 yards, threw 1 touchdown and 0 interceptions and ran 5 times for 75 yards.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Ollie Gordon II played 17 games and scored 54.1 PPR points, 3.2 a game, finishing RB68.

He carried 70 times for 199 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 7 of 9 targets for 32 more yards.

That came to 4.1 carries a game at 2.8 yards a carry and 0.4 catches a game.

He was on the field for 22 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Bo Nix played 17 games and scored 315.8 PPR points, 18.6 a game, finishing QB7.

He threw for 3931 yards on 612 attempts with 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, and ran for 356 yards and 5 touchdowns.

That came to 36.0 attempts a game at 6.4 yards an attempt.

He was on the field for 100 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Both were available for 17 games that season.

Side by side

In 2025 Bo Nix scored 18.6 PPR points a game and Ollie Gordon II 3.2, 15.4 a game between them.

Ollie Gordon II finished RB68 and Bo Nix QB7, which are two different ladders.

Ollie Gordon II is a running back and Bo Nix a quarterback, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Ollie Gordon II is off in Week 6 and Bo Nix in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

What would change the answer

Ollie Gordon II has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.